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4.1KCape Cod’s Elmer Crowell, the First and Best Decoy Maker
In 1900, an Elmer Crowell decoy sold for $2. In 2007, an Elmer Crowell decoy sold for $1.13 million. And so did...
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6.8KPuritan Child Killers: Hannah Duston and Her Sister
Hannah Duston and Elizabeth Emerson both confessed to the Rev. Cotton Mather about the children they’d killed. Hannah had tomahawked six native...
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6.8KThe Extraordinary Voyage of the Charles W. Morgan
In 1916, a 72-year-old sea captain named Benjamin Cleveland decided to take a 75-year-old wooden vessel on one last voyage. So Cleveland,...
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5.3KFrom Massachusetts Huts for Shipwreck Survivors Grew the U.S. Coast Guard
Sometime before the Civil War, Henry David Thoreau and his friend were hiking along the outer edge of Cape Cod when they...
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3.4KEdward Fitch, a Massachusetts Martyr in Bleeding Kansas
During the long struggle to abolish slavery in America, Edward Fitch did not hold political office. Nor did he serve as an...
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2.7KZouaves and Contrabands: Winslow Homer’s Civil War
Before the Civil War broke out, a military fashion craze from North Africa took hold of the United States. Men, women and...
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