holidays Archives - New England Historical Society

The Civilian Conservation Corps, a Young Man’s Adventure

During the depths of the Great Depression, a 17-year-old boy from Warren, R.I., enlisted in the Civilian Conservation Corps. He did it...

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Connecticut

The Revolutionary Holidays You May or May Not Celebrate

Revolutionary holidays didn't start and end with Independence Day. When the Revolutionary War ended, Trumbull, Conn., celebrated with A Great Jubilee Day...

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Arts and Leisure

Six Iconic Paintings From the New England States

Iconic paintings capture the essence of a place or a person. American Gothic, for example, reveals the stoic plainness of the rural...

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New England Places

Six Gilded Age Gentleman Farms in New England

During the Gilded Age, gentleman farms were an important element of the upper-class lifestyle. They served as formal summer mansions and working...

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Massachusetts

Before Thanksgiving, There Was Forefather’s Day

On one of the shortest days of the year, a group of Plymouth citizens will continue a 248-year-old tradition by celebrating Forefathers...

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New England Places

Six Christmas Towns for the Holidays

So much of New England looks like a Currier & Ives print over the holidays that it was hard to choose the...

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New Hampshire

Sarah Josepha Hale, the Little Lady From NH Who Started Thanksgiving

Growing up in Newport, N.H., Sarah Josepha Hale hardly seemed likely to move a president, build a monument or influence a generation...

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Connecticut

How To Make an Election Cake

Election Cake featured in the Puritan celebration of Election Day, one of the important colonial holidays along with Commencement Day and Training...

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Arts and Leisure

Old New England Holidays We No Longer Celebrate

Early New Englanders, influenced by the Puritans, were reluctant celebrants for most holidays. Religious festivals, they felt, were un-Christian and pagan. Yet...