All posts tagged "Harper’s"
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5.4KArts and LeisureLady Blanche Forsakes Her English Manor for True Love in Bartlett, NH
One rainy day in the autumn of 1875, a writer named A.A. Smith met Lady Blanche Murphy, the daughter of an earl,...
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8.6K2Crime and ScandalThe Mysterious 1852 Voyage of the Arabian, the Fastest Clipper Ship in Maine
In 1852 James Hinds, a ship builder in Calais, Maine, launched the fastest clipper ship ever built in the state. He’d built...
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12.4K9ConnecticutMabel Osgood Wright: The Bird Woman of Fairfield, Connecticut
Mabel Osgood Wright loved nature and wanted to study science at Cornell University, but her father thought her ambition unseemly. It was...
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