All posts tagged "letters"
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8.7KMassachusetts5 People Who Threw Shade on George Washington
George Washington possessed a unique set of qualities that inspired the people of 13 British colonies to fight for their freedom and...
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5.4K4Massachusetts6 Famous Franco-American Writers from New England
Let’s face it, Franco-American writers never receive their due. They tend to get pigeonholed as regional writers, and they can’t take advantage...
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6.6K2Rhode IslandHow Percy Marks Got Fired from Brown for Exposing the Depravities of the Ivy League
In 1924, an obscure Brown University English instructor named Percy Marks rocketed to fame with his first novel, The Plastic Age, an...
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13.8K11Connecticut16 Fun Facts About Noah Webster, the Dictionary Writer Who Was Slightly Nuts
Noah Webster was an odd duck, a famously fussy lexicographer who not only Americanized the English language but created the idea of...
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17.5K3MassachusettsNew England’s Beloved Shipwreck, the Schooner Nancy
Life handed a shipwreck to the owner of the schooner Nancy during a storm off the New England coast. So he made...
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4.0KMassachusettsWhy an Eclipse Can Only Last Eight Minutes, by Mabel Loomis Todd
Mabel Loomis Todd is best known for editing and publishing the poems of Emily Dickinson, but she also knew a lot about...
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