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2.4KFlattery Will Get You Everywhere: Ten Ways to Charm in 1780
Isaiah Thomas is best known as a newspapermen and supporter of the American Revolution. But as a printer and publisher he did...
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1.7KChouses, Jigs and Fetches – Colonial Pranks You Never Heard Of
There have always been pranks and pranksters. In the early days of the New England colonies, life was largely spent tending to...
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2.8K3Scollay Square and Tales From The Crawford House
More than fifty years after their demise, Scollay Square and the Crawford House have taken on a mystique all their own. As...
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2.4KJilts, 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 liars and lying. Here...
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4.5K1Yankee Troubadour Jonathan Plummer – The First Massachusetts Poet Laureate
There has never been an official Massachusetts poet laureate, but there certainly was an unofficial one. Jonathan Plummer of Newburyport, while not...
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2.5K1Fambles, Giggs and Red Rags – A Guide to Early New England Physiology
In the 1600s if someone offered you a Pult in the Munns, you probably didn’t want it. They had lots of expressions...
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4.6KHow the Balsams Resort Was Built on a Railroad Seat
The story of the Balsams Resort – one of New Hampshire's great old resort hotels north of the notches – begins with...
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9.1K3Six Colonial Homes by Wallace Nutting
Wallace Nutting was a dyspeptic minister so overwhelmed by urban life and modern values that he led countless Americans into a nostalgic...
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24.6K5How To Talk Rhode Island
To talk Rhode Island requires more than a passing knowledge of the expression ‘No school Fosta Glosta’ or the difference between a...
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8.0K3Six (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. Mindful that Mother's Day...
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