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Tag: Antonin Devorak

The Surprising Story of Antonin Dvorak, The Chicago World’s Fair and the Appalachian Trail

Childe Hassam's watercolor of Steele MacKaye's Spectatorium

“In September 1893, a 15-year-old boy from Massachusetts spent the day touring the Chicago World’s Fair. He had traveled there by train with two of his older brothers to visit their father, who had spent the previous year onsite, preparing for the event. The family patriarch, Steele MacKaye (pronounced Mack-eye), had arrived in Chicago in […]

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