All posts tagged "Salem Mass."
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18.1K6Flashback PhotosThe Great Salem Fire of 1914 Burns Half the City Out of Their Homes
The Great Salem Fire of 1914 was one of the last great urban fires of the era. It followed the Portland, Maine,...
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12.9K20Arts and LeisureNathaniel Hawthorne Holes up in his Bedroom for 12 Years
For 12 years, Nathaniel Hawthorne worked to succeed as a writer in an attic bedroom in a house he called ‘Castle Dismal.’...
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15.7K10Arts and LeisureFidelia Bridges, The Lonely Painter Who Found Joy in Nature
Fidelia Bridges often felt lonely and sad, but her exquisite paintings convey a lyrical joy in the birds and flowers she loved....
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8.0K8MassachusettsDirty Laundry and a Friend Save Philip English From the Salem Witch Trials
Philip English was all that the Puritan villagers of Salem distrusted: He was an Anglican who lived lavishly, he spoke French and...
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4.9K4MassachusettsJonathan Haraden, Privateer Who Captured Everything He Came Alongside
During the American Revolution, Capt. Jonathan Haraden captured dozens of British merchant ships at sea. Most people could only hear of the...
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7.2KMassachusettsAbner Kneeland, The Free-Speech Martyr Convicted of Blasphemy in 1838
Abner Kneeland was a powerful and energetic Universalist minister whose religious doubts and political beliefs sent him to a Massachusetts prison in...
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