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In this May 24, 2018, photo, people view flags on Boston Common in Boston, which are placed there for Memorial Day. The solemn display of tens of thousands of U.S. flags that first appeared on Boston Common a decade ago to honor service members who have died defending the nation is slowly becoming a national movement. The flag gardens, as they are known, can be seen this weekend in Texas, Louisiana, Ohio and New York. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Boston’s Memorial Flag Garden Idea Gaining Across the U.S.

by Mark Pratt Associated PressMay 27, 2018

This November 2015 photo released Monday, May 21, 2018, by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution shows cannons from the 300-year-old shipwreck of the Spanish galleon San Jose on the floor of the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Colombia. New details about the discovery were released Monday with permission from the agencies involved in the search, including the Colombian government. Experts believe the ship's treasure is worth billions of dollars today. (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution via AP)

Experts Disclose Details About Spanish Shipwreck

by Mark Pratt Associated PressMay 22, 2018

In this Wednesday, May 2, 2018 photo a quilt by artist Jennifer Eschedor, right, is part of the exhibit: Beyond the Border Wall, The Migrant Quilt Project, at the New England Quilt Museum, in Lowell, Mass. Artists, quilt makers and activists have joined forces to create unusual memorials to migrants from Mexico and Central America who died in the southern Arizona desert. They've sewn quilts from bits of clothing, keepsakes, and found objects collected in the migrants' makeshift camps. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Quilt Exhibit Honors Dead Immigrants

by Mark Pratt Associated PressMay 6, 2018

FILE - In this April 10, 2007 file photo, a Yawkey Way street sign hangs on a pole outside Fenway Park before a baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and Seattle Mariners in Boston. The City of Boston approved a plan Thursday, April 26, 2018, to change the name of Yawkey Way to Jersey Street, it's original name. The street had been named in honor of former Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey, who some have said was racist. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki, FIle)

Yawkey Way No More: Fenway’s Street Changes Name

by Mark Pratt Associated PressApril 26, 2018

This circa 1940s photo provided by the Jewish Heritage Center at New England Historic Genealogical Society shows Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society representatives Samuel Kalesky and Helen Alpert with a young child. The society is celebrating the launch on Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017, of its new Jewish Heritage Center containing about 1.2 million documents that includes the records of the area's Jewish philanthropies, publications, synagogues, and even the personal papers of some of the region's prominent Jewish citizens. (Jewish Heritage Center at New England Historic Genealogical Society via AP)

New Boston Center Helping Trace Roots of Jews in Region

by Mark Pratt Associated PressNovember 15, 2017

In this Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017, photo, work continues on the 17th-century homestead where Sarah Clayes lived in Framingham, Mass., after leaving Salem following the 1692 witch trials. After years-long efforts to figure out who owned the home, which had fallen into disrepair after decades of neglect, and to raise enough money to fix it, renovations are expected to be completed by the spring of 2018. (AP Photo/Bill Sikes)

House Connected to 1692 Salem Witch Trials Rescued From Near Ruin

by Mark Pratt Associated PressNovember 5, 2017

Rockwell’s Sons Fight Auction of Artworks

by Mark Pratt Associated PressOctober 22, 2017

James Heathcote, left, reacts after receiving the Ig Nobel Anatomy Prize from Nobel laureate Eric Maskin (economics, 2007) during ceremonies at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017. Heathcote won for his medical research study "Why Do Old Men Have Big Ears?" (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Scientific Absurdities ‘Honored’

by Mark Pratt Associated PressSeptember 17, 2017

In this Wednesday, July 12, 2017 photo, a pedestrian walks past the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Mass. The museum has come under intense national and local pressure after announcing earlier in the month that it is selling 40 works of art, including two by Normal Rockwell, the illustrator who called the region home for the last 30-plus years of his life. (Ben Garver/The Berkshire Eagle via AP)

Art Auction to Pay Mass. Museum’s Bills Stirs Anger

by Mark Pratt Associated PressJuly 30, 2017

A Ware Police patrol car passes the yellow house on Pulaski Street Friday, July 28, 2017, in Ware, Mass., which will be home for Paul Shanley, a priest in the Boston Roman Catholic priest sex abuse scandal who was released from prison Friday morning. (Dave Roback/The Republican via AP)

Ex-Priest in Boston Sex Abuse Scandal Released From Prison

by Mark Pratt Associated PressJuly 30, 2017