Historic Tails
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5.5KNew England Places To Visit From Central Vermont to the Tip of Cape Cod
Let history be your guide to a weekend outing this spring. The New England Historical Society every Saturday offers tips on New...
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6.6K2Peleg 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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20.2K14The 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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2.1KHow 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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3.0KLobsters 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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