All posts tagged "Cuttyhunk Island"
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3.5KArts and Leisure8 Fun Facts About the Striped Bass, the Fish That Fed Plymouth Colony
When it comes to fish, the striped bass ranks right up there with the cod. It has for centuries. It kept the...
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11.6K14Business and LaborPaul Cuffe and the Back-to-Africa Movement
The Back-to-Africa movement began with a wealthy mixed-race Quaker named Paul Cuffe. He brought African-American Bostonians to a Sierra Leone colony in...
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15.3K13MaineFlying Santa: Dropping Gifts on Lighthouses Since 1929
The New England Flying Santa tradition was born in the teeth of a fierce winter storm when lighthouse beacons along Penobscot Bay...
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