All posts tagged "biography"
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6.6KMassachusettsSilver Artifacts Discovered at Wheeler-Thoreau Shanty Site
The recent discovery of the Wheeler-Thoreau shanty site by Jeff Craig is revealing exciting new details as the archaeological evaluation of this...
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7.8KArts and LeisureHelen and Sophia Thoreau, Henry David’s Amazing Sisters
Henry Thoreau wouldn’t have been Henry Thoreau without his sisters, Helen and Sophia Thoreau. Or his brother, for that matter. But John...
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8.7K2New HampshireSeven Fun Facts About John Hay, Winner of All of Life’s Great Prizes
The name “John Hay” pops up frequently in American history, especially during the second half of the 19th century. John Hay was...
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7.4K1Arts and LeisureThe Many Loves of Margarett Sargent McKean, Mad Brahmin Artist
For half her life, Margarett Sargent struggled against the strictures and demands of her Boston Brahmin upbringing. Then for the other half,...
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12.2K2Arts and LeisureGrizzly Adams, Boston Shoemaker, Driven to the Mountains by Lawyers
Grizzly Adams might have gone down as a minor legend in the wilds of California had a fatal injury not taken him...
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18.3KArts and LeisureJ.P. Marquand, Sly Satirist of Proper Bostonians
J.P. Marquand mastered two literary genres. As author of a 1930s detective series centering on the international crime-solving detective Mr. Moto, he...
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