All posts tagged "Brahmin"
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14.4K4bostonThe Woman Suffrage Cook Book Prints Recipes for Subversion
Putting together the first woman suffrage cook book in 1886 must have been a lot like herding cats for Hattie A. Burr...
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10.4K9Arts and LeisureFanny and Oliver, The Unlikely Pair Who Secured the Legacy of Walt Whitman
On July 4, 1855, Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman was first published – to widespread shock and awe. Today’s literary classic was 1855’s...
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19.7K7Science and NatureThe Spanish Sheep Craze That Forever Changed Vermont
In 1809, a man named William Jarvis sent a flock of Spanish sheep to America and altered the landscape and the economy...
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14.9K5bostonWas Bundling in Winter Really Safer Than a Sofa in Summer?
The practice of bundling probably caused New England’s gentry more embarrassment than any other local folk custom. City slickers and the upper...
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7.5K2bostonJustin Winsor, the Genealogy Nut Who Founded the Library Profession
Libraries might be very different places today were it not for Justin Winsor, who became the head librarian at the Boston Public...
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6.1K1Crime and ScandalDerby, Vt., Harbors a Wealthy Kidnapper and Her Son, Allen Thorndike Rice
In 1860, wealthy kidnapper Elizabeth Thorndike Rice hid in Derby, Vt., with her son as her abusive ex-husband tried to find them....
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