All posts tagged "fires"
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15.9K7Crime and ScandalThe Kid Wrongly Blamed for the Cocoanut Grove Fire
Stanley Tomaszewski was a 16-year-old busboy working on the night of the Cocoanut Grove fire, Nov. 28, 1942, the Saturday after Thanksgiving....
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58.4K16MaineThe Year a State Burned: Maine Fires of 1947 Wipe Out 9 Towns
A plume of smoke near Dolliver’s dump signaled the end of Bar Harbor’s splendid era and the worst of the terrifying Maine...
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11.3KCrime and ScandalFrederick Small Commits the Imperfect Murder of 1916
Frederick Small, an awful little man, thought of himself as an astute businessman. He wasn’t. An abusive husband, he thought he committed...
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11.4K8ConnecticutThe Mystery of the Wallingford Shoebox Murder
The Wallingford shoebox murder was discovered on the Sunday morning of Aug. 8, 1886. Three young men rambling through farm country happened...
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5.7K1ConnecticutThe SS Lexington Disaster, Worst in Long Island Sound History
Cornelius Vanderbilt in 1834 commissioned a paddlewheel steamboat called the SS Lexington to be the fastest and most luxurious in operation. She turned...
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14.8K5Flashback PhotosThe Great Salem Fire of 1914 Burns Half the City out of Their Homes
The Great Salem Fire of 1914 was one of the last great urban fires of the era. It followed the Portland, Maine,...
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10.2K19Arts and LeisureNathaniel Hawthorne Holes up in His Bedroom for 12 Years
For 12 years, Nathaniel Hawthorne worked to succeed as a writer in an attic bedroom in a house he called ‘Castle Dismal.’...
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14.6K8Business and LaborThe Pemberton Mill Disaster
On a wintry evening in 1860, textile workers in the huge Pemberton Mill in Lawrence, Mass., heard an odd rattle followed by...
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4.1K12MassachusettsThe Rev. William Bentley, on the Alert for Salem Fires in January
At the turn of the 19th century, the Rev. William Bentley was constantly on the alert for Salem fires. Unlike many townspeople...
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7.0K8MassachusettsPope Night, or Colonial New England’s Version of Halloween
George Washington called Boston’s annual Pope Night celebration ‘ridiculous and childish.’ But the working-class celebrants, especially the young men, loved the wild...
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