All posts tagged "plimoth plantation"
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6.2K2ConnecticutSamuel Maverick Writes A Guide to the Wonders of New England – in 1660
Samuel Maverick, as his name suggests, didn’t like to go along with the crowd. The Puritan crowd, that is. He came to...
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7.4K10ConnecticutSix Amazing Indian Women From New England
Indian women faced double discrimination since the first European colonists arrived in the Americas. Many fought back against the prejudice that destroyed...
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7.3K7Business and LaborRiver Gods of the Connecticut River Valley Create A World of Their Own
During the 150 years before the American Revolution, a series of aristocrats known as the River Gods ruled the Connecticut River Valley....
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12.5K3ConnecticutEight Things You Didn’t Know About the Pumpkin (But Want To)
If the English colonists knew how much pumpkin they’d eat when they got to New England, they might have had second thoughts...
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20.5K4MassachusettsHow The Old Deluder Satan Act Made Sure Puritan Children Got Educated
In 1675, William Scant of Braintree, Mass., came before the court for breaking a law called the Old Deluder Satan Act: He had...
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27.5K4bostonSix Revolutionary Forts
Scattered throughout New England are dozens of revolutionary forts. Some, like Fort Halifax in Maine, date to the French and Indian wars....
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13.1K8ConnecticutThe First Town Meeting Still Going in Six States
Town Meeting dates to the European settlement of New England, and it persists today in town halls, schools and auditoriums. Not to...
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8.7K5MassachusettsA Mayflower Christmas
The Pilgrims celebrated a Mayflower Christmas in 1620 with holly, ivy, plum pudding and a gift exchange with Indian children – at...
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11.0K5MaineHow the Civil War Made the Wild Maine Blueberry Go National
The wild Maine blueberry was an underappreciated fruit for centuries until the Civil War put it on the national map. In fact,...
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22.5K6ConnecticutThe Puritan Divorce Allows Escape From the Chain of Matrimony
When Elizabeth Luxford found out her husband James already had a wife, she went straight to the Court of Assistants in Massachusetts...
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