All posts tagged "education"
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13.2K9UncategorizedThe Many Mansions of Edward Searles
In 1921, coroners had Edward Searles body exhumed months after his death. Their conclusion, after examination, was that he had not been...
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5.4KBusiness and LaborNew Haven’s Jared Flagg Launches One of the First Ponzi Schemes
In 1926 the police had Jared Flagg under questioning. It wasn’t the first time the flimflam man was in trouble with the...
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2.9KMassachusettsThe 1836 Advice Manual on Dumping a Man, Applying a Leech and Walking Down the Street
Beginning in 1836, many young ladies turned to a popular advice manual, A Young Lady’s Friend, which told them how to dress...
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21.3K4MassachusettsHow The Old Deluder Satan Act Made Sure Puritan Children Got Educated
In 1675, William Scant of Braintree, Mass., came before the court for breaking a law called the Old Deluder Satan Act: He had...
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7.2K1MassachusettsLucy Downing, Puritan Wife and Harvard Founder
In the spring of 1636, Lucy Downing wrote a letter from England to her older brother, John Winthrop, six years after he...
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41.9K14MaineHow the Real Miss Rumphius Decorated Maine With Lupines
There was a real Miss Rumphius who lived in Christmas Cove and secretly planted lupine seeds to adorn Maine’s roadsides and meadows....
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14.0K8Arts and LeisureSix Brutalist Buildings
Two of the most famous Brutalist buildings in America are still provoking strong emotions in New England decades after they first reared...
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13.4K6ConnecticutRevolutionary War Veteran Joseph Plumb Martin Tells of the Soldier’s Life
In 1775 the American Revolution looked like the adventure of a lifetime to a boy of just 14. Joseph Plumb Martin stood...
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7.3K4ConnecticutThe Lusitania Survivor Who Founded Hill-Stead Museum
Lusitania survivor Theodate Pope was given up for dead when rescuers pulled her inert body from the Irish Sea with boat hooks....
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12.3KConnecticutDolores Hart, The Connecticut Nun Who Kissed Elvis
Before she became a Connecticut nun, Dolores Hart had been nominated for a Tony, frolicked on a beach with George Hamilton and...
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