Religion and Social Movements
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9.4K6Connecticut’s Rev. John Stoddard Sells His Wife, Loses His Church
John Stoddard – Revolutionary War veteran, Congregational minister and descendent of a long-established Connecticut family – pushed his life onto the rocks...
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37.9K13The Secret History of New England’s Sundown Towns
“Whites Only Within City Limits After Dark” reads the faded road sign, an artifact on display at the Tubman African American Museum...
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13.9K2Elizabeth Poole, the Puritan Who Founded a Town
Elizabeth Poole left the comforts of her family manor house in England to join the Pilgrims in Plymouth Colony. She was 48,...
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6.6K1How Alcoholics Anonymous Got Started in Manchester, Vt.
When the first airplane landed in Manchester, Vt., in 1929, two drunks tumbled out of the cockpit and lay on the ground....
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9.0K5A Mayflower Christmas
The Pilgrims celebrated a Mayflower Christmas in 1620 with holly, ivy, plum pudding and a gift exchange with Indian children – at...
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6.9K2Trinity Church, a Parish Priest’s Dream
Boston’s Trinity Church owes its magnificent appearance to the Episcopal priest who wrote the lyrics to the Christmas carol, O Little Town of...
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8.6K3Hellfires, Whippings and Woodchuck Bites – The Perils for Puritans Sleeping in Church
In early New England, there were worse sins than Puritans sleeping in church. But few that so entertained the public and infuriated...
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12.9KDolores Hart, The Connecticut Nun Who Kissed Elvis
Before she became a Connecticut nun, Dolores Hart had been nominated for a Tony, frolicked on a beach with George Hamilton and...
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16.1K12Anne Hutchinson Takes the Fall for John Cotton
The story of how the Puritans punished Anne Hutchinson for heresy is told often; less so the way John Cotton escaped the...
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8.9K7In 1685 Massachusetts Legalized Christmas to Samuel Sewall’s Dismay
In 1685, a tolerant wind blew briefly through England when James II ascended to the throne. He ordered greater freedom for Roman...
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