All Posts Tagged With: "attractions"

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Hancock Shaker Village Announces Summer and Fall Events

The Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Massachusetts has released its event schedule for 2009, and as always it has an ambitious program for the summer and fall. Here is just a selection of events scheduled for this year. The season at Hancock Shaker Village runs from Saturday, May 23 through Sunday, October 18, 2009. Situated [...]

16Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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“Lather Man” Strikes in South Windsor, Connecticut

By James H. Hyde There’s a new attraction in South Windsor, Connecticut. You won’t find it in any attractions brochure or on a site-seeing map, and it’ll be in town for only a day or two, but if you’re a suds fan, you might want to visit the Evergreen Walk area of town as soon [...]

5Sep2008 | | 1 comment | Continued
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Boston Movie Tours Takes You Behind-the-Scenes

Boston has long been popular with Hollywood as a location for movies and TV shows. Most know that the TV show Cheers was based on a Boston Bar, and Good Will Hunting and The Departed were both filmed on the streets of the Hub. Beantown has become a friendly city towards movie makers as the [...]

23Jun2008 | | 1 comment | Continued
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Eartha: the World’s Largest Rotating Globe

I used to be able to jog to the “World’s Largest Rotating World” a 28-ft. diameter steel ball on the campus of Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Today the jog would be a little further – about 140-miles further actually – right up the New England coast to the town of Yarmouth, Maine, just up [...]

11Jun2008 | | 1 comment | Continued