All posts tagged "Rockport"
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6.1KMassachusettsHannah Jumper, 75, Rampages Against Rum in Rockport
Over five hours one summer day in 1856, 75-year-old Hannah Jumper and 200 women rampaged through the streets of Rockport, Mass., smashing...
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19.1K2Business and LaborWhen Mussolini Stiffed Gloucester, Mass., for $1 Million
In 1923, the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini refused to pay a Gloucester seafood company for a shipment of salt cod. Mussolini’s action...
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11.4K2Arts and LeisureSix Iconic Paintings From the New England States
Iconic paintings capture the essence of a place or a person. American Gothic, for example, reveals the stoic plainness of the rural...
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34.3K6Massachusetts15 Facts About the 1978 Blizzard
In Connecticut they called it ‘Storm Larry.’ But to anyone old enough to remember, the words ‘1978 blizzard’ conjure up some very...
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5.9K30New 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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9.9K2ConnecticutThe 1965 Drought, New England’s Worst Ever
It will probably be several centuries before the Northeast United States again suffers anything like the 1965 drought. It was the driest...
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22.9K5Business and LaborSix New England Ghost Towns
Though people typically think of ghost towns as belonging to the Old West, New England actually has plenty. Villages that once supported...
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11.8K8ConnecticutThe 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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12.4K14MassachusettsRemembering the Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635
The Great Colonial Hurricane, probably the strongest storm in New England’s history, struck on Aug. 25, 1635. The Rev. Richard Mather and...
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11.3K15Business and LaborThe Maine Ship Captain Who Invented the Modern Donut
In 1847, a Maine ship captain invented the donut as we know it today – with a hole. On the day Lewis...
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