All posts tagged "Camden"
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3.7K5New England PlacesSix 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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4.2K4New England PlacesThe 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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10.7K9Politics and MilitaryRhode 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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13.2K6Arts and LeisurePeyton 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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7.4K1Crime and ScandalMaine’s Mildred Gillars Wanted Fame and She Got It in WWII
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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9.4K1members onlyCastles 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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9.3K8Arts and LeisureHow 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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9.9K15Business and LaborThe 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 Lewis...
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14.9K8Flashback PhotosFlashback Photo: The Battle of Point Judith
Just before Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allied powers, 67 men died in the Battle of Point Judith off the Rhode Island...
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4.3K6Arts and LeisureEdna 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...
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