All posts tagged "potatoes"
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8.2K2Arts and LeisureHow To Talk Like a Mainer
If you want to talk like a Mainer, there’s a lot more to it than ‘ayuh’ and ‘Bah Hahbah.’ And if you’re...
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13.3K2MassachusettsThe Irish Emigrants’ Guide To Surviving the Irish Famine Ships
From 1845 to 1855, famine ships brought 2 million Irish emigrants to ports in Boston, New York and Canada. They were fleeing...
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6.2KBusiness and LaborThe Great India Rubber Panic Launches Charles Goodyear on a Crusade
Charles Goodyear might have live out his life as an obscure hardware store owner if the Great India Rubber Panic never took...
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13.5K3MassachusettsDid Thanksgiving Cost John Adams His Presidency? He Thought It Did
Today there is no doubt that across America Thanksgiving will be celebrated. But when John Adams was president, that was very much...
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16.1K8Arts and LeisureBabe Ruth Throws a Piano Into a Pond
Babe Ruth once got drunk while in Sudbury, Mass., and threw a piano into Willis Pond to show off his strength. That,...
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24.4K1MassachusettsThe Cold Friday of 1810
The legendary Cold Friday of 1810 brought such terrible winds and frigid temperature that people talked and wrote about it for generations....
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10.6K6Business and LaborThe Great Maine Potato War — The Year the Spuds Didn’t Show Up
It was May of 1976. The Apple Computer Company had started a month ago, The Bad News Bears showed in theaters, kids hummed...
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27.3K3MaineThe Needham, A Potato Candy Sacred and Peculiar to Maine
The Maine potato candy known as the needham has always stood in the shadow of the whoopie pie, but generations of Mainers have...
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12.1K8ConnecticutThe Deadly October Gale of 1841
So many Cape Cod fishermen perished in the Great October Gale of 1841 that the peninsula’s young women refused to court men...
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27.0K6New HampshireA German POW Escapes the WWII Prison Camp in Stark, N.H.
On Aug. 1, 1944 German POW Franz Bacher escaped the World War II prison camp in Northern New Hampshire, eluding the manhunt...
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