All posts tagged "pioneers"
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10.8KArts and LeisureHow Mount Mitten Got Its Name
New Hampshire’s White Mountains carry many household names. But tucked among the familiar sounding Jefferson Notch and Mount Dartmouth is the oddly...
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26.6K1Business and LaborJohnny Appleseed, The Real Reason He Wandered
Johnny Appleseed wasn’t quite a New England version of St. Francis, wandering the countryside in rags, scattering apple seeds and befriending woodland...
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11.6K30New England PlacesSix New England Places With a Unique Name
The early English and Scots-Irish settlers tended not to give a new settlement a unique name. Many New England place names came...
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21.8K9Arts and LeisureThe Salem Witch Trials, or Still Raking It In After All These Years
People still can’t seem to get enough of the Salem witch trials, which remain a mainstay of popular culture more than three...
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14.5K2ConnecticutThe History of Indian Summer
Indian summer evolved over the centuries from a pioneer superstition to the poet’s best friend to the meteorologists’ whipping boy. It is...
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43.1K2Connecticut6 Places That Became a Summer White House
The summer White House has featured in presidential life since John Adams returned to Quincy, Mass., to get away from the muggy...
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