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...Guarneri String Quartet has been hailed as "one of the world's most elegant chamber ensembles." The quartet, founded in 1964, has the distinction of being the world's oldest string quartet to feature the same original players. And, as you might imagine, 34 years of playing together reverberates in the Quartet's sound...
Sandwich is Cape Cod's oldest town and has more charm than its gastronomical name implies. Seventeenth and 18th century houses, as well as an array of antique shops, line the quiet street. Visit the Sandwich Glass Museum and discover examples of Sandwich's trademark craft. Heritage Plantation provides an interesting collection of mini-museums and gardens, and the Sandwich Boardwalk promises a beautiful walk along the sandy dunes. If you're feeling lazy, Old King's Highway (Route 6a) provides a scenic drive through some of the best-preserved New England towns, including Chatham and Yarmouth. Use Sandwich...
...this power might easily bring disaster as prodigious as the evil. The bomb rendered all decisions made so far at Yalta and at Potsdam mere trivial dams across tributary rivulets. When the bomb split open the universe and revealed the prospect of the infinitely extraordinary, it also revealed the oldest, simplest, commonest, most neglected and most important of facts: that each man is eternally and above all else responsible for his own soul, and, in the terrible words of the Psalmist, that no man may deliver his brother, nor make agreement unto...
...plaque outside this establishment tells the story of Old Jimmy Watson, the last of Boston's town criers, who finally gave up the town-crying business in 1795 to set up a tavern. Unfortunately, the fact that The Bell In Hand is one of Boston's oldest taverns is one of its few distinctions. This bar is exceedingly popular with a uniform group of young professionals and what one patron termed "students after their M-R-S degree...
...April 10, the Boston Red Sox will open their 86th season at Fenway Park, which, along with Detroit's Tiger Stadium, is the oldest ballpark in Major League Baseball. In 1999, Fenway will host its third All-Star Game, its first since 1961. But if Red Sox ownership has its way, by 2010 the Red Sox will be playing in a brand new stadium, probably in South Boston, while venerable Fenway will go the way of Ebbets Field and the Polo Grounds...