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Why did anyone bother to build Barkhamsted Lighthouse in the hills of Western Connecticut? According to legend it ...
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Arts and Leisure
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Jilts, Flams and Jibber the Kibber – The Art of Lying in Colonial Times
Lying existed in the 1600s, just as it does today. And there were many slang expressions to describe ...
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Yankee Troubadour Jonathan Plummer – The First Massachusetts Poet Laureate
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Fambles, Giggs and Red Rags – A Guide to Early New England Physiology
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How the Balsams Resort Was Built on a Railroad Seat
Business and Labor
How the Thoreau Pencil Wrote, and Paid for, Walden
The Thoreau pencil was a triumph in Henry David Thoreau’s lifetime, overshadowed since by the posthumous fame of ...
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The Panic of 1907 and the Maine Man Who Caused It
You might suppose the Federal Reserve banking system was begun in response to the great stock market crash ...
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The New England Town Crier, Part Ad Man, Part Comedian
Jimmy Wilson, Boston’s town crier for 50 years, was loved by the city’s children, and was once paid ...
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Six (And More) Mothers Who Left a Mark on History
Mothers have always had to balance competing demands, and some of those who did it best made history. ...
Read More »Politics and Military
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François-Jean de Chastellux Meets 250 New Hampshire Cows in 1780
François-Jean de Chastellux, the French philosopher, writer and general, travelled to America in 1780 as part of the ...
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12 Fascinating Facts About the Fourth of July
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Valcour Island – America’s Victorious Defeat on Lake Champlain
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The Privateer Liverpool Packet Torments Boston: The Evil Genius of Coastal Trade
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USS Squalus Rescue: World Awaits News of Sailors’ Fate
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Robert Remington Fights World War I
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The Massachusetts Scoundrel for Whom Downing Street is Named
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Josiah Bartlett, Founding Father, Gets Used to Wrongness
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The Gravesites of Six Revolutionary Heroines
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Epenow, the Wampanoag Who Conned His Way Home From England
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The Much-Maligned, Little-Mourned Crean Brush
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The Treasure of the Magnifique and the Lighthouse Keeper’s Tale
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The Canaan Mob and the Noyes Academy
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Fame, Fortune, Fire and Brimstone: The Legend of Jonathan Moulton
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Six Revolutionary Forts
