All posts tagged "magazines"
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20.2K1MassachusettsWhen Fears of Premature Burial Stalked the Land
George Washington famously feared premature burial. While on his deathbed in 1799, he instructed his personal secretary Tobias Lear to make sure...
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3.0K1MassachusettsEpes Sargent Tries to Get America to Believe in Ghosts
In the 1860s and 1870s, many Americans grew obsessed with spiritualism and communicating with the dead. The movement, which began in 1848...
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23.1K11Arts and LeisureMaxfield Parrish, A Mechanic Who Painted Fantastically
The landscape of Vermont and New Hampshire inspired Maxfield Parrish in 1922 to create the lush, romantic painting Daybreak. Daybreak became the...
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7.9K10ConnecticutSix Amazing Indian Women From New England
Indian women faced double discrimination since the first European colonists arrived in the Americas. Many fought back against the prejudice that destroyed...
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10.3K1Arts and LeisureFive Historic Thanksgiving Foods . . . That You Won’t Be Eating
The best food historians can say is that turkey probably has been on Thanksgiving tables since the beginning, and it’s been remarkably...
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29.3K4bostonSix Revolutionary Forts
Scattered throughout New England are dozens of revolutionary forts. Some, like Fort Halifax in Maine, date to the French and Indian wars....
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9.7K3Arts and LeisureWallace Stevens, Humdrum Insurance Lawyer By Day, Drunk and Belligerent Poet by Night
Wallace Stevens was a plodding insurance executive in Hartford for nearly all of his adult life, except when he spent winter vacations...
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10.2K5Arts and LeisureRose Wilder Lane, the Secret Behind the Little House Books
In 1931, 44-year-old Rose Wilder Lane saw a manuscript of a book called Pioneer Girl. It told the story of a homesteader...
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6.6K3Arts and LeisureEdie Sedgwick, Poor Little Rich Girl
. In 1965, Edie Sedgwick appeared in one of Andy Warhol’s underground films in 1965 and said, “I’ve never been anywhere where...
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5.3K4Arts and LeisureShirley Jackson Gets a Job at Macy’s
Shirley Jackson worked as a shop clerk at Macy’s by day and by night wrote stories that every middle-school child reads and...
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