All posts tagged "literary history"
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30.9K3UncategorizedTen Takes on New England History by Maine Humorist Bill Nye
Edgar Wilson Nye left Maine (he was born in the small town of Shirley) as a small child, but somehow the dry...
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21.8KArts and LeisureCaptain Kidd’s Treasure and the Secrets of the Astor Fortune
John Jacob Astor made a fortune. But did he do it as a fur trader, as he told everyone? Or, did he...
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10.8K1Arts and LeisureEdwin Arlington Robinson – The Poet Who Created Maine’s Tilbury Town
Why did Richard Cory shoot himself? Because Maine’s Edwin Arlington Robinson wanted it that way. Robinson was born in Gardiner, Maine in...
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8.5K7Arts and LeisureThe 1773 Old Librarians Almanack: The Literary Fraud That Fooled the Critics
In 1773, librarian Jared Bean published his Old Librarians Almanack in New Haven, Conn., following the traditional format of Poor Richard’s almanac....
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