All posts tagged "congregationalists"
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7.4KArts and LeisureSeven Fun Facts About E.E. Cummings
Many school kids have a special affinity for e.e. cummings, who wrote about the circus and got away with funky punctuation, made-up...
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11.9KConnecticutA Daughter of the Puritans Leads a Life of Secret Terror
A daughter of the Puritans led two lives. One, a happy ordinary life of a New England girl filled with school, friends,...
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11.9K3New HampshireThe Stone-Throwing Devil of New Castle, N.H.
During the summer of 1682, a stone-throwing devil persecuted a Quaker tavern owner named George Walton in what is now New Castle,...
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24.6K3MassachusettsDid Thanksgiving Cost John Adams His Presidency? He Thought It Did
Today people will undoubtedly celebrate Thanksgiving in some fashion across America. But for President John Adams, Thanksgiving was very much an optional...
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11.1K4Religion and Social MovementsUncle Sam Smith Becomes a Methodist and Shocks his Kin
Growing up in Newburyport, Mass., in the 1790s, Sarah Anna Emery’s mother lived on the Smith farm, the family homestead of her...
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20.1K20MassachusettsHow the Wampanoag Indians Took Back Gay Head
The Gay Head Wampanoag Indians lived on Martha’s Vineyard for thousands of years, and for the last 400 they never gave up...
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