Massachusetts
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1.2KSandwich Glass Builds a Cape Cod Town
In 1907, a businessman named Cardenio F. King arrived in the Cape Cod town of Sandwich, Mass., to a hero’s welcome. He...
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2.9KThe Boston Irish Gang Wars Terrify a City
When a group of hoodlums decided to rent a cottage on Salisbury Beach for a Labor Day party in 1961, they set...
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3.7KSt. Martin-in-the-Fields, the London Model for the New England Meetinghouse
New Englanders visiting Trafalger Square in London often get a shock when they see the façade of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. The famous parish...
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2.8KThe Sparrow Hawk: When Indians and Pilgrims Rescued America’s First Shipwreck Victims
In 1863, a storm uncovered the bones of a called the Sparrow Hawk sunk off Cape Cod in 1626. William Bradford, governor...
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1.4KThe Mashpee Nine and the Fight Over Cape Cod Land
On the moonless night of July 29, 1976, a group of young Mashpee Wampanoag men sat around a campfire, talking quietly. Some...
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