All posts tagged "cemetery"
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17.9K7Religion and Social MovementsDid Vampires Really Stalk New England Farm Families?
New England farmers in the 19th century fell prey to the belief that vampires stalked their families. They thought the dead rose...
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31.5K10Crime and ScandalMurder on the Titanic: Rhode Island Survivor Never Forgot
The chance to board the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic was too great a thrill to pass up for the adventurous...
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17.7K13ConnecticutBlack Kings and Governors of New England
From about 1750 to 1850, New England had at least 31 elected black kings and governors, nearly all of them enslaved. They...
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13.8K2Business and LaborHow the Polaroid Camera Was Born at a Connecticut Boys Camp
The Polaroid Corporation, which once employed 21,000 people, got started in a Lebanon, Conn., boys camp in 1922. It happened when a...
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7.5K3Arts and LeisureAnna Lowell Woodbury, The Forgotten Cambridge Chef Who Pioneered Industrial Education
Few remember Anna Lowell Woodbury, the blueblood who spent her life tending to sick soldiers and teaching poor women — including poor...
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28.8K34Arts and LeisureClassic Movies Shot in New England, 13 Award-Winners
Hundreds of filmmakers have come to New England since the turn of the last century and some have shot classic movies here....
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