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The Summer of Hummingbirds
A Summer of Hummingbirds
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The hummingbird became the symbol of an era for 19th-century America.

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Scott Budnick works in the dining room as customers arrive for a free meal at the Mathewson Street Friendship Breakfast in Providence, R.I.

Scott Budnick serves breakfast – with a side order of respect – to the homeless

Sunday breakfast at a Providence, R.I., church is more than a free meal. Half the volunteers are homeless themselves: 'It's their [own] breakfast that they're putting on.'

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Classic book review: A Summer of Hummingbirds

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The Summer of Hummingbirds

A Summer of Hummingbirds

At the close of the Civil War, a unique moment in US culture

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