Parker housekeeping
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The Omni Parker House hotel in Boston, Massachusetts, which has been operating continuously for more than 150 years, is currently undergoing renovation. The hotel has employed or housed many notables, including Ho Chi Minh, Malcolm X, Charles Dickens, and Bill Clinton, and literary greats Emerson, and Hawthorne, Holmes, and Longfellow formed the Saturday Club which met regularly at the hotel, and resulted in the "Atlantic Monthly" publication.
Publication Name: Yankee
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0044-0191
Year: 2001
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Light housekeeping
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Designer Astrid Vigeland's white over white layers in the apartment that she rents in a 120 year old Victorian house in Yarmouth, Maine is discussed. According to her white is calming, her taste was refined while working with Design Research, an innovative home-furnishings store in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and later in New York.
Publication Name: Yankee
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0044-0191
Year: 2003
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The new organics
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Experts believe that people are looking at organics because they are concerned about food safety and personal health. There's also a mention of the CEO of Wolfe's Neck Farm in Freeport, Maine, Erick Jensen who oversees an operation that raises all-natural beef for supermarkets throughout New England.
Publication Name: Yankee
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0044-0191
Year: 2004
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