All posts tagged "conservation"
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29.9K2Business and LaborThe Ghost Locomotives of the Great Maine Wilderness
Deep in the heart of Maine’s Allagash region sit two ghost locomotives silently rusting in the wilderness. Only a few intrepid canoes,...
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16.3K9Today's History Highlights Archive6 Places With Indian Curses
Curses were a fact of life in early colonial America. With limited scientific knowledge, spiritual beliefs reigned supreme. And many believed that...
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26.5K6New HampshireA German POW Escapes the WWII Prison Camp in Stark, N.H.
On Aug. 1, 1944 German POW Franz Bacher escaped the World War II prison camp in Northern New Hampshire, eluding the manhunt...
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10.0K5MaineTo Discover the Real Bambi, Walt Disney Goes to Maine
When Walt Disney told his artists to model Bambi on a California mule deer, Jake Day insisted the real Bambi had to...
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6.9K3Arts and LeisureThe Early Days of New England Skiing
When members of the Appalachian Mountain Club began hacking ski trails in New Hampshire over Barrett and Temple Mountains in 1927, New...
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26.1K34Flashback PhotosThe Great 1938 Hurricane, A Once-In-A-Lifetime Storm
The Great 1938 Hurricane took almost everyone by surprise. Sept. 21, 1938, was supposed to be a breezy fall day in New...
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4.8K3ConnecticutGifford Pinchot Loses His Forestry Job, Splits GOP in Two
Gifford Pinchot was chief forester for William Howard Taft when a scandal over Alaska coal got him fired. It also angered Theodore...
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3.4K5Business and LaborIsaac Stephenson, Bullwhacker on the Aroostook
Nothing Isaac Stephenson ever accomplished gave him as much pure pleasure as breaking in three yoke of green oxen and hauling the...
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8.9K8Crime and ScandalThe Tragic Love Affair of Unfortunate Hannah Robinson
Hannah Robinson, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy colonial planter, set off one of the greatest scandals of colonial America when she...
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3.6K1IrregularsHow the Smiley Face Returned to Worcester After Making Millions Elsewhere
Worcester native Harvey Ball did not have a nice day when he learned a Frenchman registered a trademark for the smiley face....
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