All posts tagged "authors"
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7.4KMassachusettsThe John Rutledge Shipwreck: A Horrifying Ordeal and One Miraculous Survival
Just after midnight on Feb. 20, 1856, the first mate of the packet ship John Rutledge began scratching out quick log entries....
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14.7K1MassachusettsThe 18 Patriots Condemned to Death – Who Wouldn’t Die
Shortly before the American Revolution broke out, an item appeared in a Boston newspaper identifying 18 patriots condemned to death. On Sept....
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10.3K6New England PlacesSix of New England’s Most Famous Writers Houses
New England is dotted with famous writers houses, a testament to the Puritan ideal of literacy and the region’s many publishing houses....
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18.2K8ConnecticutThe Highest Point in Each New England State
You might think the most challenging mountain climbing adventure in New England is to the highest point in the region: Mount Washington...
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10.4K3MassachusettsThomas Maule, the Quaker Who Criticized the Salem Witch Trials – and Got Away With It
Thomas Maule, an outspoken Quaker, went to prison five times for criticizing Puritans in Salem, Mass. The Puritans also whipped him three...
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12.9K7Science and NatureThe Purple Fire Snowstorm of 1853 – 20 Minutes of Terror Downeast
A snowstorm raged for a full day in Downeast Maine on March 13, 1853, when at sundown the winds suddenly grew calm....
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4.7KArts and LeisureHelen Hunt Jackson Tries to Write Her Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Helen Hunt Jackson was an odd choice to write one of the most popular romances of the period between the 1880s and...
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17.4K12Business and LaborAbbie Burgess, Teenaged Heroine of Matinicus Rock Light
Abbie Burgess, at just 16, kept the light burning in Matinicus Rock Lighthouse for 21 days in 1856 during a violent storm....
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6.1K15MassachusettsElizabeth Peabody, Always a Bridesmaid…
In 1832, a young widower named Horace Mann moved into a Boston boardinghouse where he met two intellectual schoolteachers from Salem, Mary...
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4.5K10Arts and LeisureJames Fields and the Old Corner Bookstore
In the middle of the 18th century, visitors to the Old Corner Bookstore would find James Thomas Fields laughing and talking with...
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