All posts tagged "beer"
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4.5KBusiness and LaborHow Narragansett Beer Survived Prohibition (But Still Couldn’t Escape the Government)
Narragansett beer survived Prohibition, but it couldn’t escape the government. Not because government agents tried to shut down the brewery during Prohibition,...
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6.7K1MassachusettsWhen Massachusetts Abolished the State Police
In 1875, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts abolished the state police department. It was only 10 years old, the first state police force...
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6.3KMassachusettsSeven Fun Continental Army Facts
Certain Continental Army facts are implanted in the minds of U.S. schoolchildren at a young age: How patriot farmers dropped their plows...
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20.6K1Business and LaborHow French-Canadian Textile Workers Came to New England
The story of a French-Canadian textile worker named Phillippe Lemay is the story of thousands of Quebecois farmers who came to New...
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6.8K9Crime and ScandalNathaniel Eaton, the Sadistic Puritan Who Made Harvard Disappear for a Year
Harvard University got off to a rough start in 1638, when Nathaniel Eaton and his wife led such a reign of terror...
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5.9K1Massachusetts9 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Bobby Kennedy
Many viewed the death of Bobby Kennedy in 1968 as the loss of the last great leader. Assassins’ bullets had taken the...
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9.3K1New England PlacesThe Six Places That Suffered the Coldest Temperature Ever in a New England State
April in New England may seem cold, but it’s nothing like the months when the coldest temperature is reported. Look for the...
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3.2KConnecticutThe Prohibition Era Begins in Litchfield, Conn. in 1789
In 1789, Ephraim Kirby, Jebediah Strong, David Buel and more than 100 of their neighbors decided to swear off strong drink. They...
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13.2KNew England PlacesSix Christmas Towns for the Holidays
So much of New England looks like a Currier & Ives print over the holidays that it was hard to choose the...
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6.0KUncategorizedRosewater, Bezoar Stone and Unicorn Horn: Seven Colonial Remedies
There was no shortage of illness in colonial New England and no shortage of colonial remedies. Our forebears left records of suffering...
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