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CAPITAL IDEAS: Should millionaires buy long-term care insurance?

The advantages of peace of mind, asset preservation, and family protection must be weighed carefully against premium costs and policy complexities.

Republican derangement: A party I respected has gone off the cliff

I grew up among virtuous Republicans inspired by what was best in the New England's Puritan tradition. That party is now gone.

CONNECTIONS: Puritans banned Christmas, Stockbridge restored it

The road from outlawing the celebration of Christmas to Christmas as we know it was a long one: 207 years from 1659 to 1856.

Berkshire Thanksgiving ‘wheres’

Professional chefs contribute their delectability skills and the food for some of the dinners, like Squanto and Massasoit long ago. All the chefs, cooks and volunteers who present these meaningful dinners are experienced and will be creating meals to remember.

BOOK REVIEW: ‘White Trash,’ keepin’ the rednecks down in America

White trash: He and she are our neighbors and fellow citizens, and their inability to make a decent living in this town is due to attitudes and policies far outside their control.

At Shakespeare & Company, discovering Aphra Behn: The brilliant playwright nobody knows

Considering the dismal lack of opportunity available to women in her time, Aphra Behn made a stubborn, and possibly wrong-headed decision: “I’ll be a playwright…. I’ll earn my own bread or go hungry.”

Connections: First Thanksgiving, the real story

The slave trade in the New World did not begin with Blacks kidnapped from the African continent and taken to America. It began with Indians kidnapped from America between 1614 and 1620 and taken to Europe.
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