All posts tagged "addiction"
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27.4KConnecticutLydia Sherman, the Derby Poisoner, Commits the Horror of the Century
Lydia Sherman had an unfortunate addiction to murder. She went on a decades-long killing spree in New York and Connecticut, poisoning at...
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16.6K10ConnecticutSix Amazing Indian Women From New England
Indian women faced double discrimination since the first European colonists arrived in the Americas. Many fought back against the prejudice that destroyed...
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35.9K3Massachusetts11 Famous People Committed to McLean Mental Hospital
Sylvia Plath called McLean mental hospital the best mental hospital in the United States. U.S. News & World Report did too. Though...
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8.8K2Business and LaborThe New England Opium Trade
The New England opium trade in the early 1800s produced considerable wealth for America. As it was never seen as a wholesome...
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12.3K9Business and LaborIn 1867 the First New England Snowbirds Travel South – ‘Feeling Young and Frisky.’
In 1867, Harriet Beecher Stowe and her husband Calvin, tiring of New England’s cold climate, visited Florida for the first time. They...
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11.1K1Religion and Social MovementsHow 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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