All posts tagged "Rutland"
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2.9KScience and NatureFletcher, Vermont: The Town That Escaped the 1918 Pandemic (This One, Too)
The 1918-20 influenza pandemic reached deep into every neighborhood in every town and city in the United States – well, almost. It...
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15.2K1Politics and MilitaryThe Irish-American Army That Attacked Canada from a Vermont Farm
Alvah Richard couldn’t believe that fanatical Irish-American army was back. For the second time in four years, the self-proclaimed Irish Republican Army...
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15.4K1Religion and Social MovementsThe Vermont Eugenics Survey Purifies the Population’s Polluted Protoplasm
The Vermont eugenics survey began with the rural exodus of Vermont farmers and didn’t end until well after Hitler used its ‘philosophy’...
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9.5K5Politics and MilitaryChamplain, the Irish Lake
Between 1840 and 1860, a great wave of Irish immigrants washed up on the shores of Lake Champlain. So many, in fact,...
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16.1KCrime and ScandalThe Pittsfield Streetcar Driver Who Nearly Killed Teddy Roosevelt
The United States came close to losing two presidents within a year after a Pittsfield streetcar driver nearly killed President Theodore Roosevelt....
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26.3K6ConnecticutHow the Wild Turkey Vanished, Then Returned, to New England
For many years the only place you could find something called Wild Turkey in New England was on a liquor store shelf....
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