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Weird Neighborhood History (episode 124)
Weird Neighborhood History (episode 124)
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87 minutes
Released:
Mar 17, 2019
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Podcast episode
Description
Instead of writing and recording a new episode, your humble hosts are going to History Camp this weekend. We’ll leave you with two stories about Boston’s weird neighborhood history from our back catalog. We’ll be sharing a story from Jamaica Plain about a politically motivated crime in the early 20th century that led to a series of running gunfights between the police and what the newspapers called “desperadoes.” Then, we’re going to move across town to Brighton, which — speaking of desperadoes — used to be home to saloons, card games, and hard drinking cowboys, when it hosted New England’s largest cattle market.
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Full show notes: http://HUBhistory.com/124
Support us: http://patreon.com/HUBhistory
Released:
Mar 17, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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