All posts tagged "Buzzards Bay"

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  Maine

  Island Castaways, New England’s Huddled Masses Yearning to Get Well

  Island castaways don’t have it easy. Just ask Robinson Crusoe. Yet, for centuries, medical and political authorities relied on the general inaccessibility...

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  Massachusetts

  The Buzzards Bay Leper Colony: Tragic Exile

  Around the turn of the 20th century, a terrifying new kind of immigrant arrived in Massachusetts: the sufferer of Hansen’s disease. A...