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...other two are basically interesting and charming towns, though it is hard to discern these characteristics behind a foreground of half-naked tentists. Princetown is particularly nice at this that of year, before strange characters and professional bohemian infest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spring Visitors to Cape Cod Discover Unseasonable Welcome, Opportunity | 5/4/1951 | See Source »

...Princetown, England, home of famed Dartmoor Prison, villagers watched open-mouthed while a uniformed convict shambled sheepishly through the town, knocked at the prison gates, shouted: "I've been locked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 31, 1939 | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...dawn on Sunday the prison siren hooted across the moor. Convicts had broken into the warden's office and attempted to steal the keys. Every man in Princetown, the little village under the prison walls, was given a rifle and posted near the jail. The central cell block roared up in flames, the clock tower fell. Guards with riot guns stood on ladders and popped at every cropped head that showed above the parapet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Broad Arrows | 2/1/1932 | See Source »

...Latin play is contemplated for next term at Princetown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 1/24/1884 | See Source »

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