All posts tagged "monuments"
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7.6K2Arts and LeisureSix Famous Artists Houses (Where You Can Stay, Too)
Artists gravitate toward places that inspire them creatively, so you can often find artists houses among splendid scenery or in rural isolation....
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9.4K10New England PlacesSix Historic Movie Sets in New England
So many New England places have served as historic movie sets that we found it hard to choose one for each state....
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19.8K6MassachusettsThe Rise, Fall and Rebirth of the Triple Decker
In the years before World War I, New England’s iconic triple decker brought thousands of immigrants into the middle class. Triple deckers...
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22.9K2New England PlacesSix Stunning Gothic Revival Buildings By Henry Vaughan
Henry Vaughan didn’t leave much in the way of paper records, but he did change the face of Puritan New England with...
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5.3K1Arts and LeisureHow To Call Someone a Drunk in Colonial Times – From The Drinkers Dictionary
In 1737, at the age of 31, Boston-born Benjamin Franklin decided to point out the many phrases people used to describe drunkenness....
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7.2K11ConnecticutConnecticut Doughboys Remember the Battle of Seicheprey
When the last Connecticut doughboys died in the early 1980s, they took with them memories of a grisly World War I battle...
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6.3K2Arts and LeisureWilliam Wetmore Story Tries To Save the Washington Monument
When the unfinished Washington Monument was still but an eyesore on the National Mall, William Wetmore Story tried to prevent it from...
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25.4K9ConnecticutSix Military Routes Used During the American Revolution
You could do worse than look at fall foliage along old military routes in New England. Some of them, originally Indian trails,...
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9.4K2New HampshireThe NH Man Who Invented Old Home Days
June marks the start of Old Home Days season not just in New England, but throughout the United States, in Canada and...
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17.5K7ConnecticutHow New England Got Its Place Names
New England has six towns called Warren, one in each state, but the reason for those place names is more complicated than...
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