All posts tagged "Middlebury Vt."
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11.1KArts and LeisureA 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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7.2K2Business and LaborEmma Willard: Inventor of the Modern Woman
Born in Berlin, Conn. in 1787, Emma Willard was one of the first people – if not the first— to believe women...
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5.8K8Religion and Social MovementsVermont’s Alexander Twilight: The First Black College Graduate in America
One day at the Brownington school in Orleans County, Vermont, a youngster approached the front of the class to answer an arithmetic...
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7.5K4Business and LaborJohn Deere, Vermont Blacksmith, Breaks the Plains
When John Deere was eight years old, his father left their home in Middlebury, Vt., and boarded a ship for England. He had received...
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