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...First it filled in the large Mill Pond near what is now the North End. To replace the water power (used for turning the city's grist mills) produced by the dam around the Mill Pond, the Legislature approved in 1819 a new dam stretching from what is now Brighton across the Back Bay to the Boston Common...
Steven M. Moreau said the workers employed at LRI's Brighton warehouse were demanding that the contract include a "no move provision" to prevent LRI from moving its warehouse to a location outside the metropolitan Boston area...
...four outpatient clinics in the area--Charles Circle, the Florence Crittenton Home in Brighton, New England Women's Service in Cambridge, and Pre-term in Brookline--provide easily available information. Planned Parenthood in Newton, unlike the clinics, does not perform any abortions, but it can provide the most complete information--through pamphlets, by phone and through a counseling service--on everything available in the area. Harvard generally refers people to the "Crit" because, Bisbee says, "appointments can be made quickly and they have the best counseling and support facilities." However, Charles Circle and Pre-term see the most women each...
...Shea, known chiefly for his velvet jackets and his passion for get-rich-quick schemes-sulfur mines in Spain, railroad lines in Zululand. Katharine settled down to the role of conformist motherhood. But one day in 1880, when she was 35 and walking on the downs near Brighton, she asked herself in the classic fashion: "Why should I be supposed to have no other interests than Willie and my children?" By then she had met Parnell, and the question was already rhetorical...
...When Parnell died, she went empty. The sometime spell that had changed her from a Victorian housewife into a femme fatale was broken. All too soon she lost her powers, her odd beauty, and from time to time her sanity. After World War I she ended up back in Brighton, at the scene of her vision, in a seaside hotel-a short, plump, obscure old lady, puffing along the promenade in all weather. Almost mercifully she died in 1921: a Juliet whose author had fallen asleep and allowed her to live 30 years too long...