All posts tagged "Cape Neddick"

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  Crime and Scandal

  The Boon Island Cannibals of Maine

  On a frosty New Year’s Day in 1711, the York County coroner was summoned to examine a frozen body discovered in a...

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  Connecticut

  300 Years of New England Christmas

  The New England Christmas started out as an ordinary work day for Puritans who frowned on the papist revelry of their Anglican...

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  Business and Labor

  Joseph Weare, Cape Neddick Farmer, Sometimes ‘Do No Great Today’

  Joseph Weare usually didn’t record much about life on his farm in York, Maine, during the busy month of June.But 1816 was...