All posts tagged "Salem Mass."
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6.0K3MassachusettsThe Massachusetts Scoundrel for Whom Downing Street is Named
London’s Downing Street, home of the British Prime Minister, was built by a Puritan from Massachusetts who switched sides in the English...
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5.1KMaineNew England in Early Film
A century before the film Manchester by the Sea was nominated for six Academy Awards, New England played many a starring role on...
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50.7K3MassachusettsSalem Chop Suey Sandwiches, A Sign of Summer
Chop suey sandwiches have marked the beginning of summer for generations of people who grew up on the North Shore of Massachusetts....
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5.1K2MassachusettsWilliam Wetmore Story Tries To Save the Washington Monument
When the unfinished Washington Monument was still but an eyesore on the National Mall, William Wetmore Story tried to prevent it from...
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17.6K5MassachusettsThe Crucible, or How Arthur Miller Got the Salem Witch Trials Wrong
Arthur Miller ostensibly wrote his classic drama The Crucible about the Salem witch trials of 1692, but he aimed it at Sen. Joseph...
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6.0K2MassachusettsThe Remittance Men: John Dudley Sargent and Robert Ray Hamilton
In 1890, the descendants of two of America’s first families – the Sargents and the Hamiltons – traveled to Wyoming to start...
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8.6K4Rhode IslandRoger Williams Pardoned in Massachusetts but Doesn’t Return
In 1936 Rhode Island was planning to celebrate its Tercentenary. It seemed only fitting that the state should get its founder out...
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10.1K9MassachusettsThe Salem Witch Trials, or Still Raking It In After All These Years
People still can’t seem to get enough of the Salem witch trials, which remain a mainstay of popular culture 326 years after...
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5.2K3MassachusettsSamuel Sewall – The Witch Trials Judge Who Couldn’t Get a Date
Samuel Sewall is best known as one of the nine judges who condemned witches to death in the Salem witch trials of...
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3.4K2Arts and LeisureNathaniel Hawthorne and the Fountain of Youth
Four friends gather to drink from the fountain of youth only to learn that there is no escaping the foolishness and mistakes...