All posts tagged "Bowdoin"
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4.1K1MaineSamuel Williams Watches an Eclipse From Behind British Lines in 1780
The American Revolution was on in 1780, but that didn’t stop Harvard professor Samuel Williams from venturing behind British lines in Maine...
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10.8K6New 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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6.8K2New England PlacesSix of the Oldest Hospitals in New England, From Wine to Women
New England’s oldest hospitals are all younger than such venerable institutions as schools, banks, businesses and taverns. Hospitals had been run for...
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4.9K2Business and LaborThe Panic of 1907 and the Maine Man Who Caused It
You might suppose the Federal Reserve banking system was begun in response to the great stock market crash of 1929, but it...
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21.0K3Arts and LeisureSix Historic New England Football Fields
Football, once called the Boston Game, was played on many historic New England football fields since the 19th century. An organized college...
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24.6K13bostonA Poorhouse in Each New England State
The poorhouse was once a very real and often feared part of life in New England. Poorhouses evolved from the English poor...
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30.9K3New HampshireJane Pierce, New Hampshire’s Unlikely First Lady
In January of 1856, a radical physician from Massachusetts, Charles Robinson, won election as governor of Kansas. President Franklin Pierce declared him...
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9.0K4Business and LaborHow the History of Petroleum Was Made in New England
In the history of petroleum, a chance meeting at Dartmouth College set into motion a chain of events that led to the...
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61.3K16MaineThe Year a State Burned: Maine Fires of 1947 Wipe Out 9 Towns
A plume of smoke near Dolliver’s dump signaled the end of Bar Harbor’s splendid era and the worst of the terrifying Maine...
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12.8K8Arts and LeisureFranklin Pierce Discovers the Body of Nathaniel Hawthorne in New Hampshire
In 1852, Nathaniel Hawthorne did the unthinkable: He wrote a campaign biography for presidential candidate Franklin Pierce. Critics thought such hackwork beneath Nathaniel...
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