All posts tagged "Nathaniel Hawthorne"
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14.3K4Arts and LeisureChilde Hassam Paints What He Sees (And Oh, What He Saw)
Childe Hassam liked to paint without his shirt on, and sometimes beat his chest while at work. He was fun, energetic and...
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102.8K33ConnecticutWay More Than the Scarlet Letter: Puritan Punishments
In their rigid enforcement of community standards, New England’s Puritan punishments often often included the bilbo, the cleft stick, the brand, the ear...
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21.3K8Arts and LeisureFranklin Pierce Discovers the Body of Nathaniel Hawthorne in New Hampshire
In 1852, Nathaniel Hawthorne did the unthinkable: He wrote a campaign biography for presidential candidate Franklin Pierce. Critics thought such hackwork beneath Nathaniel...
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12.3K1Arts and LeisureElizabeth Ellet Writes Women Into the History of the Revolution, Infuriates Edgar Allan Poe
Elizabeth Ellet recorded the lives of the women of the American Revolution – and meddled in the life of Edgar Allan Poe....
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20.4K20Arts and LeisureNathaniel Hawthorne Holes up in his Bedroom for 12 Years
For 12 years, Nathaniel Hawthorne worked to succeed as a writer in an attic bedroom in a house he called ‘Castle Dismal.’...
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13.0K7Arts and LeisureLeonard Nimoy Gets a Hand Up From JFK and EPP
In 1956, a 24-year-old taxicab driver named Leonard Nimoy got a call to pick up a Mr. Kennedy at the Bel-Air Hotel in...
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