Historic Tails
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7.4K2Peleg Nye, The Jonah of Cape Cod
Peleg Nye in 1864 had the bad luck to encounter a whale that decided to have him as a snack. As the...
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21.8K14The Valedictorians: Robert Frost and Elinor White, His Reluctant Wife
Robert Frost and Elinor White married in December of 1895 in Lawrence, Mass., after one of them finally stopped foot-dragging. The two were...
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2.3KHow the Massachusetts Rough “Ridders” Saved the White House
The year 1902 was just underway. Locked in winter’s icy grip, the nation was still mourning the death of President William McKinley,...
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3.3KLobsters and Cats and Ladies
Interspecies Struggles at the Dawn of the Progressive Era Today we know the lobster as a table food, and the cat as...
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3.4KThe Cat Who Ran the NH Summer Camp
On this date in 1935, Nellie T. Hendrick was preparing to step down from the post she held for 20 years as...
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