All posts tagged "Camden"
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9535Today's History Highlights ArchiveSix Places New England Films Were Shot
New England films number in the hundreds since the turn of the last century, partly because the region provides such rich material...
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1.4K3Today's History Highlights ArchiveThe Rise, Fall and Rebirth of Six Historic Opera Houses
Opera houses didn’t become a feature of American cities and towns until after the Civil War, though they existed before the American...
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3.6K8Rhode IslandRhode Island’s Nathanael Greene – the Limping Quaker Who Won the Revolution
Nathanael Greene had asthma, walked with a pronounced limp and belonged to the pacifist Quaker religion. None of that stopped him from...
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4.7K6New HampshirePeyton Place – A Town, Its Scandals and the Woman Who Told the World
The dirty novel Peyton Place landed like a bombshell in 1956, a surprise hit by an unknown author. The critics panned it, the...
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3.2K1MaineMaine’s Mildred Gillars Wanted Fame and She Got It
Mildred Gillars paid a price for the fame she craved so desperately. She became one of the most hated women in America...
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3.5K1Today's History Highlights ArchiveCastles of New England
Castles adorn the landscape of New England as they do in Old England, though here they weren’t built to house royalty or...
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5.6K8MaineHow To Make a Maine May Basket
An old New England tradition that perhaps deserves reviving is the giving of a May basket on May Day. It was popular...
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3.1K14MaineFlashback Photo: The Story of the Maine Ship Captain Who Invented the Modern Donut
In 1847, a Maine ship captain invented the donut as we know it today – with a hole. On the day the photo...
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11.2K6Rhode IslandFlashback Photo: The Battle of Point Judith
Just before Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allied powers, 67 men were killed in the Battle of Point Judith off the coast...
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1.9K6MaineEdna St. Vincent Millay Gives Thanks for a Basket of Flowers, May 4, 1918
Edna St. Vincent Millay was a 22-year-old Vassar student on May 4, 1918 when she wrote a letter thanking her friend Corinne...