All posts tagged "Fairhaven Mass."
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2.8KBusiness and LaborIda Tarbell, Investigative Journalist, Takes Down John D. Rockefeller
In the 1930s, Ida Tarbell sat down at her mahogany desk in the sunny library of her Easton, Conn., farmhouse. She wrote...
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17.9K4ConnecticutThe First Storm Chasers Track The Great Atlantic Hurricane of 1944
Just six years after the Great Hurricane of 1938 devastated New England, a storm of similar magnitude headed north from the Caribbean:...
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16.6K1Business and LaborNathaniel Palmer, Connecticut Mariner, Sort of Discovers Antarctica in 1820
On Feb. 6, 1821, young Capt. Nathaniel Palmer and the four-man crew aboard the Hero were becalmed in uncharted waters off Antarctica,...
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6.6K12MassachusettsFlashback Photo: The 1782 Sack of Lunenburg by America’s Pirate Navy
The sack of Lunenburg in 1782 was a spectacular example of the importance of America’s pirate navy to the Revolutionary War. During...
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