Science and Nature
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3.1K1The 1762 Drought Follows a Cold, Late Spring
A cold April was a prelude to the 1762 drought, one of the worst in the history of New England. It hit...
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1.6KMassachusetts’ Celery Bug Bill
William T. Hopkins of Franklin, Mass. -- known around the world as Celery Bug Bill -- started his working life as a...
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4.5K2New England Places To Visit: Museums, Cemeteries, Battlefields and a Rummage Sale
Even during the dreariest spring, New England holds a wealth of places to visit for history lovers. There are battlefields for the...
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3.3K2The Musketaquid Comes Out of the Cellar
Henry David Thoreau took his little boat Musketaquid out of the cellar in early March 1855 because the Concord River had iced...
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2.1KEllen Henrietta Swallow – MIT’s First Woman Student
In the late 1800s, Ellen Henrietta Swallow broke down barriers to women not by casting off the duties assigned to them, but...
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10.8K17The Red Paint People of Maine
Before the first colonists and explorers came to New England. Before even the American Indian tribes lived here, there were the Red...
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13.8K1The Cold Friday of 1810
The legendary Cold Friday of Jan. 19, 1810 brought such terrible winds and frigid temperature that people talked and wrote about it...
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3.7K1Fanny Bullock Workman Shows Rich Brits What an American Woman Can Do
In 1898, a 39-year-old American woman named Fanny Bullock Workman did something that shocked the tiny clique of wealthy British men who...
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8.2K2Mr. Marconi Builds a Radio Station on Cape Cod and Comes to the Rescue of the Titanic
On Jan. 18, 1903, Guglielmo Marconi sent a message from his Cape Cod station, the first radio transmission to cross the Atlantic...
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6.2K3John Adams Has a Spa Day in 1771 – at Connecticut’s Fashionable Stafford Springs
The Revolutionary War disrupted the finances and ambitions of all the founding fathers, but none more than Dr. Joseph Warren and his...