Samuel Maverick, as his name suggests, didn’t like to go along with the crowd. The Puritan crowd, that is. He came to...
There isn’t much that’s fun about taxes, but we thought we’d try to find something. So we found seven fun — well,...
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James Mitchell Varnum fought against English rule in the American Revolution as one of George Washington’s generals. Then shortly after the war...
During the Civil War, a Connecticut minister named E. B. Hillard went on a quest to collect the reminiscences of the Revolutionary...
For many years the only place you could find something called Wild Turkey in New England was on a liquor store shelf....