All posts tagged "candy"
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20.2K4MassachusettsDwight 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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8.6K1Arts 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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7.3K1MassachusettsSix 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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9.4KCrime and ScandalVermont’s Disappearing/Reappearing Catherine Packard: A Tale of Bigamy and Bootlegging in the Roaring ’20s
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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20.8K1Business and LaborSquirrel Nut Zippers, the Vintage Candy That Tried To Make a Comeback
Squirrel Nut Zippers, born in Massachusetts and named after a Vermont drunk, left for Texas in 1999 and then returned to their...
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18.7KArts 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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