All posts tagged "gambling"
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15.6K31MassachusettsThe Orphan Train and the Children Who Rode Them
In 1926, a four-year-old orphan named Lorraine Williams and 13 other children were scrubbed, dressed in new clothes and put onto an...
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4.3K16MassachusettsRichard Crafus, Black Captive King of the War of 1812
During the War of 1812, more than a thousand African-American prisoners in Dartmoor Prison toed the line set by a tall, powerful...
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4.8K4MaineLet Them Eat Lobster – Marie Antoinette Plans To Move to Maine
Marie Antoinette and Maine hardly trip off the tongue together, but an intrepid ship captain from the state nearly saved the life...
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4.4K9Crime and ScandalThomas Kemble, The Kissing Colonist
Capt. Thomas Kemble was a prominent ship's captain in the 1650s in Massachusetts, but that didn't stop him from getting into trouble...
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16.0K22MassachusettsThe Puritans Ban Gambling and a Whole Lot of Other Things
The Puritans had barely arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony when they banned gambling. And then they banned a lot of other...
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1.4K7MassachusettsBabe Ruth: ‘A man ought to get all he can’
When Red Sox owner Harry Frazee announced he’d sold 24-year-old Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees on Jan. 5, 1920, The...
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15.0K38MassachusettsWe Won’t Go Until We Get Some: New England Colonial Christmas Traditions
Just how rowdy was a New England colonial Christmas? It depended on who was celebrating. But it bore little resemblance to Christmas...
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5.0K11MassachusettsBabson’s Boulders: A Millionaire’s Odd Dogtown Legacy
Eccentric millionaire Roger Babson had an unusual hobby that mortified his family: During the Great Depression, he hired unemployed stonecutters to carve...
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7.2K3UncategorizedBoston Tong Wars Explode in 1907 Chinatown Massacre
As evening arrived in Boston on August 2, 1907, Chinatown merchants began closing their shops and laundries for the day. Breaking through the...
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2.8K9MassachusettsTwo Different Bostons Shaped Malcolm X and MLK (Pt. 1)
When Martin Luther King, Jr., moved to Boston in 1951 to study for his graduate degree in philosophy, Malcolm X was already...