All posts tagged "fishing"
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7.9KArts and LeisureSamuel Bemis Takes America’s First Landscape Photo in the White Mountains
Samuel Bemis was a Boston dentist who bought one of the first cameras in America in 1840 and took the first known...
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20.8K2Arts and LeisureSix Iconic Paintings From the New England States
Iconic paintings capture the essence of a place or a person. American Gothic, for example, reveals the stoic plainness of the rural...
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15.2KCrime and ScandalPhilip Ashton Escapes Pirates and Miraculously Survives on a Deserted Island
Philip Ashton, a 19-year-old fisherman, escaped captivity by the vicious pirate Edward Low on a remote Caribbean island. For 16 months he...
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63.1K10MassachusettsRemembering the 1978 Blizzard
In Connecticut they called it ‘Storm Larry.’ But to anyone old enough to remember, the words ‘1978 blizzard’ conjure up some very...
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11.7K3New HampshireThe Stone-Throwing Devil of New Castle, N.H.
During the summer of 1682, a stone-throwing devil persecuted a Quaker tavern owner named George Walton in what is now New Castle,...
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16.1K1New England PlacesThe First, First Sunrise in Each New England State
Trying to calculate the exact moment of sunrise isn’t easy. In fact, the U.S. Naval Observatory says it’s nearly impossible because of...
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