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Six Fun Facts About Kurt Vonnegut on Cape Cod

Kurt Vonnegut wrote the kind of books that students in the 1960s bought to stoke their outrage and disdain. Outrage over the...

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New Hampshire

How the Londonderry Scots-Irish Saved New Hampshire from Massachusetts

The Londonderry Scots-Irish prevented New Hampshire from a Massachusetts takeover by being fruitful and multiplying along the border. Massachusetts had taken over...

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Religion and Social Movements

The Vermont Eugenics Survey Purifies the Population’s Polluted Protoplasm

The Vermont eugenics survey began with the rural exodus of Vermont farmers and didn’t end until well after Hitler used its ‘philosophy’...

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Connecticut

Seven Fun Facts About Taxes

There isn’t much that’s fun about taxes, but we thought we’d try to find something. So we found seven fun -- well,...

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Politics and Military

Loyalists and Patriots: Mary Munro Sent Packing to Canada During the Revolution

During the American Revolution, Vermont was a battleground that pitted loyalists and patriots against each other, not just on the battlefield but...

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Arts and Leisure

Six More Artist Homes In New England

The creative spirit that moves people to sculpt and paint also tends to inspire an interesting artist home. Lucrative commissions in the...

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Massachusetts

Harriet Jacobs, Enslaved, Tells of Her #MeToo Moments. No One Believes Her.

Harriet Jacobs, held in slavery, wrote a book about her sexual oppression that people didn’t believe for more than a century. Then...

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Politics and Military

Champlain, the Irish Lake

Between 1840 and 1860, a great wave of Irish immigrants washed up on the shores of Lake Champlain. So many, in fact,...

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Arts and Leisure

Grizzly Adams, Boston Shoemaker, Driven to the Mountains by Lawyers

Grizzly Adams might have gone down as a minor legend in the wilds of California had a fatal injury not taken him...

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