All posts tagged "Hadley Mass."
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18.6K1ConnecticutNew England Witchcraft Trials: It Wasn’t Just Salem
Plenty of people in early New England were persecuted for witchcraft, and not just in Salem, Mass. Witches had troubled the European...
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10.9K5ConnecticutThe Hartford Controversy of 1650: ’Afraid to venture our souls’
In 1656, the Hartford controversy cost Rev. John Russell his job. During the 1650s the church at Hartford, Conn., was one of...
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28.7K3ConnecticutThe 1919 Christmas Eve Massacre and the Mobster Who Got Away With Murder
On Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in 1919 a tidal wave of patients began showing up at the hospitals in Western Massachusetts...
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9.8K6ConnecticutThe Puritanical Controversy Over the Meetinghouse Stove
Perhaps nothing revealed the puritanical contempt for comfort so much as the absence of a meetinghouse stove. The Puritans believed their religious...
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16.9K25ConnecticutHow New Haven Became Part of Connecticut: It Was the Regicides
Had three regicides fled somewhere other than New Haven Plantation, Connecticut might look a lot different today. The three Puritan ‘king-killers’ who...
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39.8K5MassachusettsWhat 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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