All posts tagged "ceremonies"
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20.5K33MassachusettsJohn Quincy Adams Takes the Oath of Office – Wearing Pants
John Quincy Adams was inaugurated March 4, 1825 as America’s sixth president. He was principled, intelligent and eloquent, though his principles occasionally...
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26.6K17Arts and LeisureBefore Groundhog Day, It Was Candlemas
Candlemas was always about two thing before it was about the groundhog: candles and the weather. For many Catholics, Candlemas was also...
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27.0K6Religion and Social MovementsSeven Strange Facts About Colonial Funerals
New England’s early colonists paid a great deal of attention to death and funerals. Many people attended colonial funerals, and would think...
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5.9K4Arts and LeisureRemembering Martin Bergen, From Beaneaters Star to Murder-Suicide
In the summer of 1934, three very different lives converged in North Brookfield, Mass.: song-and-dance man George M. Cohan; Philadelphia Athletics...
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15.2K7Flashback PhotosFlashback Photos: Ashland, Maine, Memorial Day, 1943
More than 300 men were drafted from tiny Ashland, Maine, in Aroostook County, to fight in World War II, and so Memorial Day...
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29.5K45frontWe Won’t Go Until We Get Some: New England Colonial Christmas Traditions
Just how rowdy was a New England colonial Christmas? It depended on who was celebrating. But it bore little resemblance to Christmas...
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