All posts tagged "Hadley Mass."
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6.7K5ConnecticutThe Hartford Controversy of 1650: ’Afraid to venture our souls’
In 1656, the Hartford Controversy cost Rev. John Russell his job. In the 1650s the church at Hartford, Conn. was one of...
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5.5K6ConnecticutThe 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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11.5K23ConnecticutHow 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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34.8K5MassachusettsWhat 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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32.4K21New HampshireThe 1936 Flood That Engulfed New England
The great 1936 flood began on March 11 with a downpour in New England that didn’t stop for 14 days. The rain...
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