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• BHCA 28th Annual Beacon Hill Holiday Decorating

  07-12-2023 05:19 via beaconhilltimes.com
  Volunteers looped wreathes on mops and brooms as they strode through the community, hanging 2,200
  wreathes on posts during the December 2 Beacon Hill Civic Association’s Holiday Decorating. Shown are
  Michelle Lavers and Matthew S. carrying wreathes up Joy Street.
  
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• Boston Restaurateur Icon, Tom Kershaw, Turns 85

  07-12-2023 05:18 via beaconhilltimes.com
  A true Boston icon, Tom Kershaw, the venerable Beacon Hill businessman and philanthropist, as well as longtime owner of  Hampshire House whose basement pub inspired the classic sitcom, ‘Cheers,’ turned 85 on Friday, Dec. 1.In 1969, Kershaw, then a 30-year-old recent graduate of Harvard Business School, said he “did some psychological testing on what his career path might be,” and “the results came back: hospitality, hospitality, hospitality.”Tom Kershaw (
  
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• For Over 200 Years, the Fragment Society Has Been Helping the Less Fortunate

  07-12-2023 05:17 via beaconhilltimes.com
  By Susanne BeckIn June 1812, Boston was a town divided. President James Madison had just declared war on Great Britain, an act the majority of the Massachusetts House of Representatives condemned. Legislators called the event “awful, unexpected, hostile to your interests, menacing to your liberties, and revolting to your feelings,” voting 406 to 240 in opposition. The state Senate disagreed, passing a resolution in favor of the war, declaring it both just and necessary.The president
  
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