Summer at the Spring House Hotel
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The Spring House Hotel on Block Island in New England offers summer jobs to college students, who pay a small part of their salary for room and board in a shared room or dormitory on the island. The students work for 35 to 40 hours per week during a three-month apprenticeship.
Publication Name: Yankee
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0044-0191
Year: 2001
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"We found no courtesy in them." (Giovanni da Verrazano's impressions of native Americans)
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Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazano found the native Wampanoags of what became Rhode Island to be a gentle, generous people. When he ventured north to Maine, he described the Indians as rude barbarians who scorned and mooned him.
Publication Name: Yankee
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0044-0191
Year: 1992
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The best-case scenario
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An accident on a freeway in Boston, MA, in Mar 1999 is remembered vividly by the fuel tanker truck driver and people who were nearly killed by the fire that resulted. No one was killed even though the fire was very large.
Publication Name: Yankee
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0044-0191
Year: 2000
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