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History & Heritage. Quincy the Gateway to Boston Harbor. Nestled in between the 22 hills of the Blue Hills Reservation and 27 miles of coastline along Boston Harbor and the Harbor Islands, the area we know of today as the City of Quincy has always been a center of human activity and innovation.
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Quincy (/ ˈkwɪnzi / KWIN-zee) is a city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. It is the largest city in the county and a part of Greater Boston, being Boston 's immediate southern suburbs. Its population in 2020 was 101,636, making it the seventh-largest city in the state. [2]
The city takes its name from Colonel John Quincy, soldier, politician and leading member of the Quincy political family. For this reason, Quincy is pronounced 'kwin-zee' after the family name, although it is frequently mispronounced by outsiders.
Songfacts®: This is the title theme to the 1967 film In the Heat of the Night, starring Sidney Poitier as Virgil Tibbs, an African American detective who endures racial prejudice while trying to solve a murder in a small Southern town. Quincy Jones, who scored the film, invited husband-and-wife songwriting duo Alan and Marilyn Bergman to write ...
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This song is about Springsteen's experiences growing up in Freehold, New Jersey, his hometown. Bruce doesn't have many nice things to say about Freehold, and would play another scathing song about his hometown called "Freehold" on his 1999 tour. The original title was "Your Hometown."
