Showing posts with label Boston. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Boston. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Introduction to Winter Traction: Finding the Roots of Today's Safety and Fun Under Foot in Snow and Ice

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Like a scene from Black Beauty , a horse goes down in the shafts of a delivery wagon on a Boston street, sometime between 1917 and 1934. ...
Monday, May 28, 2012

Boston's historic 54th Regiment of black soldiers marched straight into Civil War history

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A brief excerpt from a PBS documentary on the sculptor Saint-Gaudens, who created the Shaw Memorial on Boston Common. We take it for gran...
Saturday, May 05, 2012

Kentucky Derby 2012: Famous (and Fast) Thoroughbred Feet from Churchill Downs

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  That's a long apron! I think horseshoer Steve Norman, who is quite tall, wears such a long one because he often has shorts on...

Kentucky Oaks: Famous Fillies' Foot Fashions at Louisville's Churchill Downs

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  For old times' sake: The Louisville Courier-Journal asked horseshoer Steve Norman  what he thought about toe g...
Sunday, July 04, 2010

Star-Spangled Anvils: The Anvil Chorus May Have Been the Fourth of July's Original Crowd-Pleasing Music

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I live in a place that takes the traditions of the  Fourth of July very seriously. It's a celebration here of Olympic proportions, as...
Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Hoof do you like in the Derby? Shoewear of the Fast and Famous

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A feet-first introduction: Meet Visionaire, trained by Michael Matz. He's wearing a Kerckhaert aluminum race plate, imported from Hollan...