All posts tagged "sailing"
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28.6K2Politics and MilitaryFort Blunder, America’s Most Embarrassing Gun Battery
The storied gun battery known as Fort Blunder offers a lesson for civil engineers: Before you build, make sure your surveyors know...
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11.0K8Crime and ScandalThe Capture of the I’m Alone, New England’s Uncatchable Rumrunner
For six years during the heart of Prohibition, New England Coast Guard patrols often saw the Gloucester-rigged schooner I’m Alone sailing off...
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13.1K1Arts and LeisureEleonora Sears, Brahmin Bad Girl on the Tennis Courts (and Polo Field and Squash Court…)
Eleonora Sears pioneered women’s sports in the way only a Boston blueblood could. When she took up long-distance walking from Boston to...
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16.7K1Business and LaborNathaniel Palmer, Connecticut Mariner, Sort of Discovers Antarctica in 1820
On Feb. 6, 1821, young Capt. Nathaniel Palmer and the four-man crew aboard the Hero were becalmed in uncharted waters off Antarctica,...
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33.3K7Crime and ScandalThe Day Rhode Island Hanged 26 Pirates
On July 19, 1723, officials in Newport, R.I., hanged 26 sailors for piracy before a jubilant crowd. They comprised half of all...
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12.4K3ConnecticutAlbert Einstein Summers in Rhode Island, Connecticut
Even the greatest minds need a rest now and then, and in the 1930s Albert Einstein rested his in New England, spending...
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