All posts tagged "Massachusetts Humane Society"
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3.9KMassachusettsFrom Massachusetts Huts for Shipwreck Survivors Grew the U.S. Coast Guard
Sometime before the Civil War, Henry David Thoreau and his friend were hiking along the outer edge of Cape Cod when they...
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4.3KMassachusettsThe Great Gale of 1879 and a Daring Nantucket Rescue
The Great Gale of 1879 showed why Nantucket earned the nickname the Graveyard of the Atlantic. The storm, which began on March...
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3.6KFlashback Photos‘The start of the life-boat, Cape Cod’
The 1906 postcard below bears the caption, ‘The start of the life-boat, Cape Cod.’ John Wilfred Dalton, in Life Savers of Cape...
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