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Producer and on-air host Ken Meyer was one of Boston's most respected broadcasters and the first blind radio personality in the city’s history.
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Radio personality Ken Meyer’s disability never got in the way of...

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North Street in the North End was formerly known as Ann Street, as shown in this 1881 photo, when it was part of the “Black Sea” red-light district in the 19th century.
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Boston’s North End was once a notorious red-light district known as...

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Dr. Hugh Morgan Hill, better known as Brother Blue, was a storyteller on the streets of Cambridge and Boston for decades. Photo/Wikimedia Commons
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Brother Blue was Cambridge’s beloved storyteller, street poet and philosopher

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Charlie’s Sandwich Shoppe in Boston’s South End has been serving up diner food to famous visitors and colorful regulars for nearly a century.
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Serving up Charlie’s Sandwich Shoppe’s distinctive history

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DJ John Garabedian hosted the nationwide “Open House Party” radio show for 30 years.
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DJ John Garabedian invited the entire country to his ‘Open House...

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Boston native Samuel Morse invented the telegraph after being devastated by the sudden illness and loss of his wife, which he found out about by letter, the fastest method of communication at the time.
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Wife’s death inspired Boston native Samuel Morse to invent the telegraph

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The only time The Bell in Hand Tavern in Boston, shown here in 1901, was officially closed in over two centuries was during Prohibition, from 1920 to 1933.
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The Bell in Hand Tavern turns 230

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Boston garage rock band the Remains appeared before millions of TV viewers on “The Ed Sullivan Show” and opened for the Beatles during their 1966 U.S. tour. Photo/Wikimedia Commons
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The Remains: ‘America’s Lost Band’ from Boston

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From the 1930s to the 1970s, several Boston department stores offered “charm schools” to teach young ladies etiquette.
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Gone are the days of Boston department store charm schools

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The song “Dirty Water” by the 1960s band The Standells is a celebratory song for Boston sports teams, but it was inspired by a mugging on a bridge over the Charles River.
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‘Dirty Water’ is more than a game-winning song

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