All posts tagged "poverty"
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5.7K1Massachusetts9 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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29.0K1MassachusettsEmma Goldman Opens An Anarchist Ice Cream Shop in Worcester, Mass.
Emma Goldman could have made a fortune from her ice cream parlor in Worcester, Mass. It was 1892, and she was a...
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6.8K2Crime and ScandalThe Nineteenth Century Curse of Mercie Dale
The story of the curse of Mercie Dale begins around 1800 in Braintree, Mass. Mercie’s daughter Silence had married William Hayden in...
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4.1K1Arts and LeisureFat Culls, Gingerbreads and Outrunning the Constable – 10 Ways to Describe the Rich in Colonial Times
It’s a rich man’s world. It was as true in the 1700s as it is today, and there were plenty of colorful...
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10.9K4MassachusettsA French Parish Gets an Irish Priest, And War Breaks Out in Fall River
In 1884, a French parish in Fall River, Mass., locked its Irish pastor out of the church and made his life a...
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4.6K2Arts and LeisureThe Raging Blizzard That Killed Mr. and Mrs. Tarbox in 1819
Samuel Tarbox and his wife are still remembered nearly 200 years after they froze to death in a fearful March snowstorm. To...
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6.2K2Arts and LeisureLittle Women Surprises Louisa May Alcott With Its Amazing Success
Louisa May Alcott called Little Women some ‘rubbish’ she ‘scribbled.’ When she gave her manuscript to her publisher, she hoped for a...
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2.9KConnecticutThe Prohibition Era Begins in Litchfield, Conn. in 1789
In 1789, Ephraim Kirby, Jebediah Strong, David Buel and more than 100 of their neighbors decided to swear off strong drink. They...
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7.3K1New England PlacesSix French Place Names in Six New England States
French place names reveal much about the history of a city or town. They reflect the great historical events that took place...
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18.5K6Science and NatureSix Ways the Little Ice Age Made History
The Little Ice Age changed New England history in ways that historians are only beginning to understand. Though scientists don’t agree on...
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