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The Gen. Artemas Ward Homestead is a historic property in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. Commonly known as the "Artemas Ward House", it is the lifelong... home of Artemas Ward, American Major General in the American Revolutionary War and a Congressman from Massachusetts. Today, the house is a Nationally Registered Historic Place. The house has stood at 786 Main Street since it was built by Ward's father, Nahum, in 1727. Its location is along the original Boston Post Road, and an original mile marker of that road is still visible across Main Street on the Dean Park side. Many additions were made to the house over the years and the main structure was occupied by Ward family members until 1909. From 1909 until 1954 descendants of the general lived in a second structure situated behind the colonial home. The home is now a museum preserved by Harvard University and it is open to the public for limited hours during the summer months. The property also includes a four story barn, the largest structure of its kind in New England.
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Mike Birbiglia is an American comedian, writer, actor, and director. Birbiglia has starred in three Comedy Central specials and has released three... albums with Comedy Central Records: Two Drink Mike , My Secret Public Journal Live , and Sleepwalk With Me Live . My Secret Public Journal Live was named one of the best comedy albums of the decade by the Onion AV Cluband Sleepwalk With Me Live debuted at #1 on the Billboard Magazine Comedy Charts. In 2008, Birbiglia opened Sleepwalk WIth Me, a one-man show that straddled standup comedy and theater, off-Broadway at the Bleecker Street Theatre. The show was presented by Nathan Lane and the New York Times called the show "simply perfect." Time Out New York named it their "Show of the Year" in 2009. Birbiglia followed up his theatrical debut with Sleepwalk With Me & Other Painfully True Stories, a book which debuted as number 29 on the hardcover nonfiction New York Times Bestseller List and number four on the hardcover nonfiction section of the Washington Post Political Bookworm Best Sellers.
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Massachusetts , officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a U.S. state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. Massachusetts is the 7th least extensive, but the 14th most populous and the 3rd most densely populated of the 50 United States. The... state features two separate metropolitan areas – the eastern Boston metropolitan area and the western Springfield metropolitan area. Approximately two thirds of the state's population lives in Greater Boston, most of which is either urban or suburban. Western Massachusetts features one urban area – the Knowledge Corridor along the Connecticut River – and a mix of college towns and rural areas. Massachusetts is the most populous of the six New England states and has the US's sixth highest GDP per capita. Massachusetts has played a significant historical, cultural, and commercial role in American history. Plymouth was the site of the colony founded in 1620 by the Pilgrims, passengers of the Mayflower.
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