Word: blues
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Blue eyes that are so serene you get lost in them...
...crossing the line between Cambridge and Somerville on Kirkland Street is always a strange thing. Stepping over that invisible border does more than simply change the street signs from green to blue. It acts as a type of psychological time warp, taking this traveler out of Cambridge 1999 and delivering her into an industrial 1950s town. Instantly, an influx of dilapidated, mint-green, triple-decker houses dot the streets and countless abandoned businesses with fading airbrushed signs line up next to one another...
...Seeing that the day was done for these men, I decided that I would make my way home as well. I stepped back out onto the deserted main street behind the transfer station and headed back towards the highway. The air was crisp and the sky was clear blue. Gazing off into the distance I noticed the gold peak of the Capital building sparkling like a beacon for my journey back to my red- bricked home...
...unlucky proprietor of the annoyingly ancient "Blue Laws," Massachusetts has yet to repeal these laws responsible for early Sunday closings, the ban on alcohol sales after 10:45 p.m., the closing of liquor stores on Sundays and the closing of bars...
...Originally written in 1650 and distributed in blue-paper covers, these dreaded "blue laws" have actually been infringing on people's recreational fun for over 300 years. Punishing anything from idleness to colorful clothing to the breaking of Sabbath codes, these laws were also known as the bloody laws or the black and blue laws, which referred to the punishments doled out when the laws were broken...