All posts tagged "conservation"
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4.7K5Business 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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13.5K8Crime 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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9.7K9ConnecticutMabel Osgood Wright: The Bird Woman of Fairfield, Connecticut
Mabel Osgood Wright loved nature and wanted to study science at Cornell University, but her father thought her ambition unseemly. It was...
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5.6K1IrregularsHow 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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6.6K6Business and LaborGirl Power: The 1933 New Haven Garment Workers Strike
In 1933, a poor Italian-American teenager led the dramatic New Haven garment workers strike that lifted thousands of women into the middle...
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