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Kidd sat on the board of directors of the Associated Grantmakers of Massachusetts from 1987 to 1992. She worked for the Brookline Council for the Arts and Humanities in her hometown from...
...think you've seen it all before, in your own hometown or elsewhere, you could probably use a reminder. In a college-dominated metropolis such as Greater Boston, it's easy for students to pick up a superior attitude something along the lines of, "My consumer dollars make this town run, hence you stop when I run in front of your...
...military intervention of the United States, Mao Zedong, reluctantly gave up his ruthless ambition of sparing none. Across the strait, Chiang Kai-shek thought the same. After spending some time interpreting Mao's "mercy," Chiang also subdued his obsession of recapturing the mainland, and his dream of visiting his hometown one more time gradually faded away. With the United States in between, relative peace was achieved out of a forced balance of explosive tension...
...native of Allentown, Pennsylvania, Jarrett (who is of Hungarian and Scottish-Irish extraction, not African-American, as some have supposed from his appearance) began giving piano recitals in his hometown at the age of seven. He turned down a chance to study in Paris with the late Nadia Boulanger, teacher of three generations of American composers. "It wasn't a casual 'No,'" he recalls. "I was developing a way with music that would be better off minus the labels on everything, minus the descriptions, minus the analysis...
Johnson was recognized for her work as a minister in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in her hometown of Nashville, Tennessee...