Building from nothing
The story of a boy named Richard.
Season’s greetings from our sponsors
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R.I.P. Reed Ham Works
This was Burlington’s only industry before Route 128 brought electronics.
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Young Dorothy’s village store
Children sometimes ran this store, and it ran just fine.
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Rubbed the wrong way
Burlington’s massage parlors forced the hands of police and lawmakers in the 1970s and 80s.
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Every house had a little bit of DuCett somewhere
Many of the nuts and bolts of Burlington’s boom years came from here.
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Brace yourself for a story about Arthur
How a precocious Brooklyn lad became Burlington’s first university-trained orthodontist.
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We rejected greyound racing in ’46
Proposal fell just 55 votes short at a raucous Town Meeting
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Donahue’s Furniture was the ending. Here’s the beginning and middle.
Saying goodbye to a war hero, undaunted traveler and retail icon.
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Cheers, jeers and tears for Sears
Sears died a few weeks shy of its 50th anniversary at the Burlington Mall.
