All posts tagged "candy"
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1.4K1Arts and LeisureFrom Soups to Nuts – Ten Eponymous New England Classic Foods
What could be a better guarantee that your name will never be forgotten than having a food named after you? Here, in...
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277MassachusettsSix Quick Facts About the Valentine in History
The Valentine has pleased and perturbed people since Charles, Duke of Orleans, sent one to his wife from the Tower of London...
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307VermontVermont’s Disappearing/Reappearing Catherine Packard
In August of 1929, police in Chester, Vt., discovered the body of a young woman buried in a grove of spruce trees....
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4.6K1MassachusettsSquirrel Nut Zippers Return to Massachusetts
Squirrel Nut Zippers, born in Massachusetts and named after a Vermont drunk, left for Texas in 1999 but since returned to their...
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6.2KMaineA Christmas First for New England? Each State Can Claim One.
New England is as unlikely a place as there is to celebrate a Christmas first. After all, Puritans in Massachusetts and Connecticut...
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2.4K1MassachusettsThe Kennedy Family Christmas in the White House
In 1962, the Kennedy family Christmas in the White House was the best ever. It was also the last. 1st White House...
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5.6K3MaineThe Needham, A Potato Candy Sacred and Peculiar to Maine
The Maine potato candy known as the needham has always stood in the shadow of the whoopie pie, but generations of Mainers...
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4.8K8MaineHow 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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4.8K31MassachusettsThe Orphan Train and the Children Who Rode Them
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe passenger train, 1875. In 1926, a four-year-old orphan named Lorraine Williams and 13 other children were scrubbed,...
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1.2K1Maine300 Years of New England Christmas
The New England Christmas started out as an ordinary work day for Puritans who frowned on the papist revelry of their Anglican...