All posts tagged "Salem"
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12.5KCrime and ScandalA Sad Condition: Wilmot Redd and the Salem Witch Trials
In 1692, Wilmot Redd died on the gallows because her neighbors didn’t like her. Redd (or Reed/Read, by some accounts) was the...
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11.0K2MassachusettsHow the Codfish Started the American Revolution
The American Revolution was to some extent a fight over the big, stupid, slow-moving codfish. Codfish were by far colonial New England’s...
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4.8K1MassachusettsHow John Adams Became A “Church going Animal”
It took a lifetime of study and reflection for John Adams to come up with his religious credo. In the end, the...
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4.6KMassachusettsThe Great Puritan Periwig Controversy
Cotton Mather and Samuel Sewall were close and lifelong friends. They moved in the same Boston social circles, shared companions, dined together and...
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9.9K1Arts and LeisureSix Historic Cemeteries in New England
As Halloween approaches, we thought it appropriate to look at some of the most historic cemeteries in New England. Cemeteries are almost...
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5.1KArts and LeisureElton John Sings The Praises of 19th-C Quackery Queen, Lydia Pinkham
In 1968, a song about a quack medicine became a No. 1 hit in the U.K. nearly a century after Lydia E....
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23.9K9Crime and ScandalSix Places Where A Gallows Once Stood
So many people died on the gallows in New England that you may well have walked over a spot where someone met...
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7.5K1MassachusettsMargaret Rule and the ‘Smutty’ Cotton Mather
In September of 1693, in the aftermath of the Salem witchcraft hysteria, a Boston girl, Margaret Rule, convinced the town that she...
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7.1K1Arts and LeisureSix Famous Artists Houses (Where You Can Stay, Too)
Artists gravitate toward places that inspire them creatively, so you can often find artists houses among splendid scenery or in rural isolation....
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5.6KArts and LeisureRufus Porter, the Folk Artist Who Founded Scientific American Magazine
Rufus Porter left his mark on early New England homes with stencils on their walls and Scientific American on the coffee table....
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