All posts tagged "Farmington Conn."
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6.9K1Arts and LeisureThe Many Loves of Margarett Sargent McKean, Mad Brahmin Artist
For half her life, Margarett Sargent struggled against the strictures and demands of her Boston Brahmin upbringing. Then for the other half,...
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19.4K4ConnecticutThe Lusitania Survivor Who Returned From the Dead
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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35.1K9Connecticut6 Stops on the Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a network of people who hid fugitives from slavery in their homes during the day. At night they...
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20.1KPolitics and MilitaryJacqueline Bouvier Comes of Age in New England
Jacqueline Bouvier was renowned for her poise and style as First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. But she had floundered through her adolescence, uncertain...
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35.6K28ConnecticutMiss Porter’s School Finishes Socialites, Scholars and a First Lady
The educational reformer who founded Miss Porter’s School in 1843 could not have imagined the fame, fortune, scandal and accomplishment her students...
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