All posts tagged "photos"
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7.6K6Politics and MilitaryThe Civilian Conservation Corps, a Young Man’s Adventure
During the depths of the Great Depression, a 17-year-old boy from Warren, R.I., enlisted in the Civilian Conservation Corps. He did it...
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27.2KConnecticutRevolutionary War Veterans Reminisce (And Get Their Pictures Taken)
During the Civil War, a Connecticut minister named E. B. Hillard went on a quest to collect the reminiscences of the Revolutionary...
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24.5KNew England PlacesSix Abandoned Places
What is so appealing about abandoned places? Cyberspace abounds with photos, videos and bloggers waxing elegiac about abandoned old mills, mansions and...
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27.2K9Crime and ScandalSix Places Where A Gallows Once Stood
So many people died on the gallows in New England that you may well have walked over a spot where someone met...
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6.4K1Massachusetts9 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Bobby Kennedy
Many viewed the death of Bobby Kennedy in 1968 as the loss of the last great leader. Assassins’ bullets had taken the...
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81.4K19MassachusettsHow Scottish POWS Were Sold as Slave Labor in New England
As many as 400 Scottish POWS captured in the Battles of Worcester and Dunbar were shipped to New England in the 1650s...
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