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June 25, 2024 - Boston theatre, Black history in the Gilded Age, and Sebastian Junger
Today on The Culture Show, contributor Joyce Kulhawik goes over the latest plays and movies to take in. She’s an Emmy-award winning arts and entertainment reporter and president of the Boston Theatre Critics Association.
From there we enter the Gilded Age.
When families such as the Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Vanderbilts expanded their wealth, they needed to spend it. In the summers, they decided to do that in Newport, Rhode Island, creating one of America’s first resort towns by building mansions on the rugged coastline.
This is the Gilded Age most people know. But it’s far from the full…
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