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June 29, 2008

DeWolf descendants looking at family records from the slave trade at the Bristol Historical and Preservation Society, Bristol, RI. (Credit: Holly Fulton) Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North explores the slave-trading background of the DeWolf family of Bristol, Rhode Island. Katrina Browne, who created the documentary, discovered while doing library research that her ancestors had been the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. The news affected her deeply and she......

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April 4, 2008

The following post is from our advertiser, WGBH. Sisters Elinor (Hattie Morahan, The Golden Compass) and Marianne Dashwood (Charity Wakefield, Jane Eyre) have opposite approaches when it comes to the pursuit of love. One is tempered and rational, the other impulsive and full of youthful passion. The sisters attract a trio of suitors -- handsome Edward Ferrars (Dan Stevens, The Line of Beauty), heroic Colonel Brandon (David Morrissey, State of Play), and effusive John Willoughby......

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March 29, 2008

The Night James Brown Saved Boston World Premiere Monday, March 31, 6:15 pm One Guest Street, Brighton WGBH Free, but RSVP here James Brown meant a lot of things to a lot of people, but he meant unity to Boston when he chose to perform here the night after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in 1968. Tensions were high all over the nation, and Brown didn't have to go on stage. But he did. City......

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March 28, 2008

The following post is from our advertiser, WGBH. Sisters Elinor (Hattie Morahan, The Golden Compass) and Marianne Dashwood (Charity Wakefield, Jane Eyre) have opposite approaches when it comes to the pursuit of love. One is tempered and rational, the other impulsive and full of youthful passion. The sisters attract a trio of suitors -- handsome Edward Ferrars (Dan Stevens, The Line of Beauty), heroic Colonel Brandon (David Morrissey, State of Play), and effusive John Willoughby......

Continue Reading "Sponsored Post: Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility"

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