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Want to Stop a Trump Statue in Adams? It’ll Cost You Ten Dollars.
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The boiler in the basement of Turn Hall in Adams, Massachusetts, was cast in Westfield and installed in 1902. The members call it the Beast.…
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Adams Has a Dead Boiler and a Lonely McKinley. I Have $25,000.
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Turn Hall in Adams, Massachusetts, has a boiler that the members call the Beast. It was cast in Westfield and has heated the building since…
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Adams, Massachusetts, Should Build a Trump Statue. Hear Me Out.
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There is a bronze man in the middle of my hometown with his left arm stuck out, and it is easy to assume he is…
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Everything That Should Have Killed Me
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I have a scar on my left shin from a lawn dart. A Jart. The real kind, the kind that is now illegal to sell…
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The Hot Tub, the Hose, and the Girls from Pittsfield
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On Old Milwaukee, plausible deniability, and the night Jason turned the greatest moment of my adolescence into a cryogenics experiment. There is a list that…
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Of Penises and Parishes: How Two Cities 8,000 Miles Apart Found Common Ground in the Most Uncomfortable Way Possible
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On penises and parishes, cultural differences, unlikely similarities, and the enduring ability of the human phallus to generate scandal on both sides of the Pacific.…
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Adams Had Textiles. Hong Kong Had Everything Else.
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There is a man in Kwai Chung whose hands are the color of diesel and whose truck has 187,000 kilometers on it and whose opinion…
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The Egg Tart
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The first time I ate a Hong Kong egg tart, I thought of Boston cream pie. Not because they taste the same. They don’t. A…
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Ayana Bali, a Monkey, and the Bathing Suit That Started an International Incident
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On butlers, Rock Bars, and why Robert Louis Stevenson was wrong. There is a saying, attributed to Robert Louis Stevenson, that it is better to…