All posts tagged "salt"
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13.5K2ConnecticutThe Trumbull Store, George Washington’s Favorite Shop in Connecticut
When Gen. George Washington needed men, food, cannon or gunpowder for his army, he could usually get it at the Trumbull store...
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12.6K7Arts and LeisureJohnny Kelley, Beloved Icon of the Boston Marathon
The day after Johnny Kelley won his first Boston Marathon in 1935, he showed up at 7:30 a.m. at his job in...
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19.7K6Religion and Social Movements The Great Connecticut Polygamy Crisis of 1903
By 1903, New Haven Congregational minister Henry Learned Hutchins had spent years traveling about Connecticut on behalf of the Connecticut Bible Society,...
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38.7K3MaineThe Needham, A Potato Candy Sacred and Peculiar to Maine
The Maine potato candy known as the needham has always stood in the shadow of the whoopie pie, but generations of Mainers have...
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27.3K6MassachusettsThe 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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11.0K4Business and LaborIn 1853, Boston Sends Food to Famine-Wracked Madeira – and the Island Says Thanks
When word spread that the poor of Madeira needed food during famine in 1852, wealthy Bostonians sent help. But they never expected...
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