Brookline

St. Mark's Methodist Church is a site on the National Register of Historic Places. It is located at 90 Park Street in Brookline, Massachusetts. The... church was built in 1892 by George Clough in a Romanesque style. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
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The George R. Minot House is a National Historic Landmark at 71 Sears Road in Brookline, Massachusetts. The Colonial Revival house was built in 1929... and was the home of George R. Minot, a Nobel Prize winner in medicine and Physiology who discovered a cure for pernicious anemia. The house was added to the National Historic Register in 1976.
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The Edward Devotion House is a historic house at 347 Harvard Street in Brookline, Massachusetts. It was built in 1745 and added to the National... Register of Historic Places in 1978. The house, one of Brookline's oldest colonial structures, is owned by the town and administered by the Brookline Historical Society as a historic house museum. The home also serves as the headquarters of the Brookline Historical Society.
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John Goddard House is a historic house at 235 Goddard Avenue in Brookline, Massachusetts. It was built in 1767 and added to the National Register of... Historic Places in 1985.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site, located in Brookline, Massachusetts' Coolidge Corner neighborhood, is a historical site that... commemorates the life of President John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1963. Tours of his home are offered, and a film is presented. The Kennedy home in Brookline, Massachusetts, is the birthplace and childhood home of future President John F. Kennedy. His brother, Joe Jr. was born while the family was on vacation in Hull, Massachusetts, but his sisters, Rosemary and Kathleen, were born in the house. The house itself was purchased by Joseph P. Kennedy in 1914 and the family lived there until 1920, when the growth of the family motivated the Kennedys to move to a larger home just a few blocks away on the corner of Abbottsford and Naples. The Kennedys will sell the Beals Street house to Joe Kennedy's advisor Edward Moore and his family. The Kennedys will live in the Abbostford Road home until 1927, when Joe Kennedy's business interests facilitate the family's move to New York. The Kennedy family were the third owners of the house on Beals Street. The home was built in 1909, in a growing suburb in Brookline, MA.
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Michael Stanley Dukakis served as the 65th and 67th Governor of Massachusetts from 1975–1979 and from 1983–1991, and was the Democratic... presidential nominee in 1988. He was born to Greek immigrants in Brookline, Massachusetts, also the birthplace of John F. Kennedy, and was the longest serving governor in Massachusetts history. He was the second Greek American governor in U.S. history after Spiro Agnew. Dukakis's father Panos was a Greek from Adramytio, in Asia Minor, who settled in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1912, and graduated from Harvard Medical School twelve years later, subsequently working as an obstetrician. His mother Euterpe was a Greek immigrant from Larissa of Vlach-Aromanian descent; she and her family emigrated to Haverhill, Massachusetts, in 1913. She was a graduate of Bates College. Dukakis attended Brookline High School in his hometown. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1955, served in the U.S. Army 1955–1957, stationed in Korea, and then received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1960.
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Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy was a United States Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. Serving almost 47 years, he was the... second most senior member of the Senate when he died and is the fourth-longest-serving senator in United States history. For many years the most prominent living member of the Kennedy family, he was the last surviving son of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.; the youngest brother of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, both victims of assassination, and Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., killed in action in World War II; and the father of Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy. Kennedy entered the Senate in a November 1962 special election to fill the seat once held by his brother John. He was elected to a full six-year term in 1964 and was reelected seven more times before his death. The controversial Chappaquiddick incident on July 18, 1969, resulted in the death of his automobile passenger Mary Jo Kopechne; Kennedy pleaded guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident, and the incident significantly damaged his chances of ever becoming President of the United States.
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Jon Krakauer is an American writer and mountaineer, primarily known for his writing about the outdoors and mountain-climbing. He is the author of... best-selling non-fiction books—Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, Under the Banner of Heaven, and Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman—as well as numerous magazine articles. Krakauer was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, as the third of five children and was raised in Corvallis, Oregon, from the age of two. His father introduced the young Krakauer to mountaineering at the age of eight. He competed in tennis at Corvallis High School and graduated in 1972. He went on to study at Hampshire College in Massachusetts, where in 1976 he received his degree in Environmental Studies. In 1977, he fell in love with former climber Linda Mariam Moore and they married in 1980. They lived in Seattle, Washington, but moved to Boulder, Colorado, after the release of Into Thin Air. One year after graduating from college , he spent three weeks by himself in the wilderness of the Stikine Icecap region of Alaska and climbed a new route on the Devils Thumb, an experience he described in Eiger Dreams and in Into the Wild.
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Jean Ann Kennedy Smith is an American diplomat and a former United States Ambassador to Ireland. She is the eighth of nine children born to Joseph... Patrick Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald and is their last surviving child. She is the sister of the 35th U.S. President, John F. Kennedy, Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Edward M. Kennedy and Special Olympics founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver. Smith is the founder of Very Special Arts , an internationally recognized non-profit dedicated to creating a society where those with disabilities can engage with the arts. In 2011, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, by President Barack Obama for her work with VSA and the disabled. Born Jean Ann Kennedy in Boston, Massachusetts, on her elder sister Kathleen's eighth birthday, she has been described as the shyest and most guarded of the Kennedy children. Her mother said of her youngest daughter, "She was born so late, that she only was able to enjoy the tragedies, and not the triumphs.
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Myron Leon "Mike" Wallace is an American journalist, former game show host, actor, and media personality. During his career, which has spanned over... sixty years, he has interviewed a wide range of prominent newsmakers. He was one of the original correspondents for CBS' 60 Minutes which debuted in 1968. Wallace retired as a regular full-time correspondent in 2006, but still appeared occasionally on the series until 2008. For many years, Mike Wallace unknowingly suffered from depression. In an article he wrote for Guideposts, Wallace related, "I'd had days when I felt blue and it took more of an effort than usual to get through the things I had to do". It worsened in 1984, after General William Westmoreland filed a $120 million libel lawsuit against Wallace and CBS over statements they made in their 1982 documentary The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception. Westmoreland claimed the documentary made him appear as if he manipulated intelligence. The lawsuit, Westmoreland v. CBS, was later dropped after CBS issued a statement explaining they never intended to portray the general as disloyal or unpatriotic.
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Barry Gordon is an American film, television and voice actor and political talk show host and producer. He was the longest-serving president of the... Screen Actors Guild, having served from 1988 to 1995. Gordon was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. His father is pop singer Bob Manning. He began his professional life at age three; in his TV debut, he won second place on Ted Mack's Amateur Hour singing Johnnie Ray's "Cry". At six, Gordon recorded "Nuttin' for Christmas", still one of the top-selling Christmas recordings of all time. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. He was the youngest performer ever to hit the Billboard Hot 100, when that song hit #6 in 1955. As a child star, Gordon also appeared on The Jackie Gleason Show, The Jack Benny Program, and Star Time with Benny Goodman. Barry Gordon also appeared as Humberto in an episode of the NBC sitcom Sally, starring Joan Caulfield, and as Chopper in ABC's Leave It to Beaver Episode 119: "Beaver's House Guest". When he was thirteen, Gordon debuted on Broadway, as Nick in Herb Gardner's A Thousand Clowns, a role that earned him a Tony Award nomination.
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