All posts tagged "folklore"
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36.6K5MassachusettsWhat They Say About Snow in New England
New Englanders spend countless hours thinking about snow – analyzing it, predicting it, commenting on it. After all, New England gets a...
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18.2K5Business and LaborThe Hoosac Tunnel Disaster of 1867
The Hoosac Tunnel disaster killed 13 miners in 1867, but the tunnel took the lives of an estimated 180 workers during decades of construction....
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24.4K10MassachusettsBlack Cats, Lucky Bones and Superstitious New Englanders
New England Puritans were a superstitious lot who believed luck ruled their lives. They took measures to ward of bad luck, attract...
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14.2K2MassachusettsThe Legend of Dungeon Rock and the Pirate Treasure It Holds
Like many New England folk tales, dates and specifics are sketchy. But the story of Dungeon Rock most certainly begins before the...
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4.6K1Science and NatureA Dirty Shoelace For Sore Throats, And Other Home Remedies
Doctors were scarce in early New England, and the colonists had to make do with home remedies. Some home remedies they learned...
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5.2K8Business and LaborFanny Hardy Eckstorm Does Justice to Thoreau’s Maine Guide
Fanny Hardy Eckstorm in 1904 published a story about the tragic death of Henry David Thoreau’s Maine guide, a Wabanaki Indian who...
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