All posts tagged "Catholicism"
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33.7K13Business and LaborHow the Polish Immigrants Came to New England
Before Polish immigrants arrived in New England they had already made it to the Jamestown colony in Virginia as craftsmen. Over the...
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70.6K42ConnecticutThe Little Canadas of New England
Dozens of Little Canadas have contributed a significant but often ignored part of the character and history of New England since the...
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39.3K3MaineThe 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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87.1K10MassachusettsThe Night Ethel Kennedy Met Jackie Bouvier
Ethel Kennedy loved to be the center of attention, but she couldn’t compete with her sister-in-law, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. Ethel was outdoorsy...
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47.9K32MassachusettsThe Orphan Train and the Children Who Rode It
In 1926, a four-year-old orphan named Lorraine Williams and 13 other children were scrubbed, dressed in new clothes and put onto an...
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10.3K12ConnecticutWilliam F. Buckley, Jr., The Merry Gladiator of the Right
William F. Buckley, Jr., for decades skewered liberals with such charm and merriment that most of them ended up liking him. Some...
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