All posts tagged "exeter NH"
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12.8K10ConnecticutJohn Trumbull Gets a Few Things Wrong in His Famous Declaration of Independence Painting
Ten years after the American colonies adopted the Declaration of Independence, John Trumbull traveled the country in a carriage seeking out all...
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15.4K8Arts 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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14.6K8ConnecticutThe First Town Meeting Still Going in Six States
Town Meeting dates to the European settlement of New England, and it persists today in town halls, schools and auditoriums. Not to...
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45.6K6New HampshireWentworth Cheswell, the Black Man Who Rode With Revere
Wentworth Cheswell is considered New Hampshire’s first archaeologist and the first African-American elected to public office in the United States. He also...
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16.9K12MassachusettsAnne Hutchinson Takes the Fall for John Cotton
The story of how the Puritans punished Anne Hutchinson for heresy is told often; less so the way John Cotton escaped the...
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9.1K7Connecticut6 New Deal Projects Still in Use
The New Deal put tens of millions of people to work and changed the landscape in every New England city and town....
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