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If someone asked if you knew of any famous Salem witch trials descendants, you might come up with Nathaniel Hawthorne. The 19th-century...
One spring day in Saco, Maine, Osgood Stevens, 14, was having trouble clearing debris from Woodbury Brook. He couldn’t dislodge a whitewashed...
In 1830 and 1831, a 12-year-old Maryland slave and a 22-year-old backwoods store clerk picked up the same book – the Columbian...
You just might be living near a John La Farge window if you live in Rhode Island or Massachusetts, and in any...
Some people believe that the Rough Riders were almost all cowboys from out West. After all, it had earned the nickname “The...