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Sea Voyages With Father

Annie Burke shares memories of how her father, Jim Burke, helped her overcome childhood respiratory illness.  My son, Jim, has been after me to write down some of the remembrances of my father…

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Kate Gleason: A Century Ahead ­of Her Time

Even in recent decades, women engineers have at times felt like they’re trying to make it in an “old boy’s club.” But back in the era of Kate Gleason, a woman with engineering…

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Saying Goodbye

It’s easier to accept loss if you get to say goodbye. It doesn’t make it…

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Stars Turn Out For
Concern Gala Evening

The stars came out in October to honor A.M. Rosenthal, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose…

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July 7, 1816

On this day in 1816, Dublin born playwright and politician Richard Brinsley Sheridan died in London. Sheridan was a member of the British House of Commons and is best remembered for his plays “A Trip to Scarborough,” “The Rivals,” and “The School for Scandal.” He was very well respected by his contemporaries and is buried at the Poet’s Corner at Westminster Abbey.

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