All posts tagged "New York"
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12.1K6Business and LaborThe Dutch in New England: More Than Sinterklaas and Koekjes
Today the remnants of the colonial Dutch in New England are pretty much limited to the region’s outer rim: At Smith’s Castle...
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11.2KMaineOliver Otis Howard, The Mainer Who Founded Howard University
Gen. Oliver Otis Howard thought he was fighting the Civil War to preserve the Union, not to free any slaves. Howard had...
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18.4K2Crime and ScandalBoston Corners, The Naughty Town That Massachusetts Lost to New York
Look closely at a map of Massachusetts and you’ll notice the southwestern corner doesn’t square off. It’s as if someone chopped off...
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8.4K2Crime and ScandalThe Mysterious 1852 Voyage of the Arabian, the Fastest Clipper Ship in Maine
In 1852 James Hinds, a ship builder in Calais, Maine, launched the fastest clipper ship ever built in the state. He’d built...
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28.6K19Arts and LeisureArlo Guthrie Gets Arrested for Littering
A Thanksgiving dinner clean-up in 1965 launched Arlo Guthrie on a folksinging career, created an anti-war anthem and transformed an old church...
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12.1K9ConnecticutMabel Osgood Wright: The Bird Woman of Fairfield, Connecticut
Mabel Osgood Wright loved nature and wanted to study science at Cornell University, but her father thought her ambition unseemly. It was...
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