All posts tagged "Thoreau"
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2.2K1New HampshireThe Willey Family Tragedy and a Painting Create White Mountain Tourism
When the Samuel Willey family moved to Crawford Notch in 1825, they unwittingly set in motion a chain of events that turned...
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1.9K1MassachusettsFrederic Tudor in 1806 Brings Cocktails and Ice Cream to the Rest of the World
In 1805, Frederic Tudor decided to make his fortune by selling ice to people in tropical climates – once he’d hooked them...
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7471MaineNine New England Tax Resisters
Abolition, war and injustice have inspired tax resisters in New England since even before the American Revolution. And well after the American...
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480MassachusettsThe Truth About Johnny Appleseed, Not Quite a New England St. Francis
Johnny Appleseed wasn’t quite a New England version of St. Francis, wandering the countryside in rags, scattering apple seeds and befriending woodland...
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1793Massachusetts6 Famous Franco-American Writers from New England
Let's face it, Franco-American writers never receive their due. They tend to get pigeonholed as regional writers, and they can't take advantage...
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3203Science and NatureSix Ways the Little Ice Age Made History
The Little Ice Age changed New England history in ways that historians are only beginning to understand. Though scientists don’t agree on...
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2602ConnecticutEight Things You Didn’t Know About the Pumpkin (But Want To)
If the English colonists knew how much pumpkin, or pompion, they’d eat when they arrived in New England, they might have had...
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3761Today's History Highlights ArchiveSix Places Workers Were Killed in New England
Over the course of New England history many thousands of workers were killed on the job. Some, like Vermont quarry workers, died...
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5131Science and Nature7 Strange Things New Englanders Did During the Dog Days of Summer
Dogs were said to go mad during the dog days of summer, and New Englanders have certainly done strange things in the...
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2053Business and LaborHow the Thoreau Pencil Wrote, and Paid for, Walden
The Thoreau pencil was a triumph in Henry David Thoreau’s lifetime, overshadowed since by the posthumous fame of his books and essays...