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If It's May Day, Boston Needs All its Sam Malones at the Commons!

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Holidays
Location MA
City/State/Country: Boston, MA, United States
Age of Players Adult
Holiday May Day
Text

"On the first of May each year, large crowds filled the [Boston] Commons to picnic, play ball or other games, and take in entertainment."

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John Corrigan, "The Anxiety of Boston at Mid-Century," in Business of the Heart: Religion and Emotion in the Nineteenth Century (University of California Press, 2002), page 44. Accessed 11/15/2008 via Google Books search ("business of the heart"). Corrigan's source, supplied 10/31/09 by Joshua Fleer, is William Gray Brooks, "Diary, May 1, 1858."

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