All posts tagged "newburyport mass."
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21.1K4Business and LaborTimothy Dexter, the Ridiculous Millionaire Who Sold Coals to Newcastle
Timothy Dexter was considered a lucky fool for selling coal to Newcastle and bed warmers to the tropics – and somehow making...
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5.9KMassachusettsPresidents Day Quiz
How well do you know our presidents? Take the New England Historical Society Presidents Day quiz to find out! [mlw_quizmaster quiz=3]
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7.1K5New HampshireMargery Brown and Owen O’Sullivan – An Unlikely Love Story
Margaret Brown of County Cork in Ireland had a fierce beauty and a temper to match. She crossed from Ireland in 1723...
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7.8K3Business and LaborNewburyport Rum Withstands the Test of Time — Almost
Caldwell’s Newburyport Rum may or may not have been the best of the so-called Boston rums, but it lasted the longest. Except...
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8.8K2Arts and LeisureThe Circus Comes to Newburyport – and Scandalizes the More Upright Citizens
When the circus came to Newburyport, Mass. in 1810, it wasn’t viewed as a completely respectable form of entertainment, and those who...
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67.4K4Business and LaborThe New England Teachers Who Invented New Math in 1788
By 1885 Americans were ready for new math. In 1773, the sixth edition of Thomas Dilworth’s classic Schoolmaster’s Assistant was the dominant...
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5.5K7Arts and LeisureThe 1773 Old Librarians Almanack and the Colonial Literary Life
In 1773, librarian Jared Bean published his Old Librarians Almanack in New Haven, Conn., following the traditional format of Poor Richard’s almanac....
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7.3K4Arts and LeisureEthel Reed, The Beautiful Poster Lady Who Disappeared
The beautiful Ethel Reed blazed like a meteor across Boston’s artistic firmament in the 1890s, but after a broken engagement she all...
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3.4K3Business and LaborContinental Currency and the Grasshopper Plains Swindle
Continental Currency was constantly depreciating in value. Rather than tax people to raise funds in the late 1770s as the Revolutionary War...
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7.6K4MassachusettsGeorge Whitefield – The Cross-Eyed Calvinist Bedevils the Conservative Colonists
Rev. George Whitefield was an early leader of the Methodist movement in England, but he split from it over theological differences. With...
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