December 15, 2025
Tag: Maine Postcards
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Humor from Away
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If you’re a member of the plaid pants brigade and you have tried to engage a Down-Easter in conversation, you may have come face-to-face with conversation that is thin, forced or downright laconic. It is prompted by those from Away. If so, you were the victim of Maine humor. Don’t worry, you have lots of…
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April 21, 2022 6 Comments
The Mambo Craze blazed through New York City nightclubs from the 1940s through the early 1960s. The influence of Puerto Rican and Cuban immigrants, the extraordinary visible success of Desi Arnaz (“I Love Lucy”) and Xavier Cugat, and the comedian Cantinflas, was so great that even the staid Waldorf-Astoria Hotel featured mambo dancing.