All posts tagged "candy"
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6.9K3MassachusettsDwight L. Moody, Yankee Preacher, Meets Abe Lincoln in Little Hell
In 1860, a poor Yankee preacher named Dwight L. Moody met the Illinois rail-splitter, Abraham Lincoln, in a Chicago slum. Moody was...
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4.7K1Arts and LeisureFrom Soups to Nuts – Ten Eponymous New England Classic Foods
What could be a better guarantee that your name will never be forgotten than having a food named after you? Here, in...
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3.3KMassachusettsSix Quick Facts About the Valentine in History
The Valentine has pleased and perturbed people since Charles, Duke of Orleans, sent one to his wife from the Tower of London...
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3.7KCrime and ScandalVermont’s Disappearing/Reappearing Catherine Packard
In August of 1929, police in Chester, Vt., discovered the body of a young woman buried in a grove of spruce trees....
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10.5K1MassachusettsSquirrel Nut Zippers Return to Massachusetts
Squirrel Nut Zippers, born in Massachusetts and named after a Vermont drunk, left for Texas in 1999 but since returned to their...
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12.6KArts and LeisureA Christmas First for New England? Each State Can Claim One.
New England is as unlikely a place as there is to celebrate a Christmas first. After all, Puritans in Massachusetts and Connecticut...
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5.0KBusiness and LaborThe Vinegar Valentine That Ruined a Romance
George Whitney had no use for the nasty greeting card known as the vinegar valentine. Whitney was the Valentine Czar of the...
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26.9K4Business and LaborPercy Spencer Melts a Chocolate Bar, Invents the Microwave Oven
Percy Spencer had only a fifth-grade education, but that didn’t stop him from earning patents crucial to winning World War II –...
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14.0K4MassachusettsThe Kennedy Family Christmas in the White House
In 1962, the Kennedy family Christmas in the White House was the best ever. It was also the last. 1st White House...
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26.2K3MaineThe Needham, A Potato Candy Sacred and Peculiar to Maine
The Maine potato candy known as the needham has always stood in the shadow of the whoopie pie, but generations of Mainers have...
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