If there had been a game in, say, Miami, and the next one was in Dallas, he might ask his bus driver to stop for the night at this place, which features outlying cottages on the Gulf of Mexico.

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Despite its location in the outlying countryside of central Massachusetts, the meetinghouse is an eloquent emblem of its place and time.

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