All posts tagged "Sandwich Mass."
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29.5K4MassachusettsThomas Prince, New England’s First History Nut
Perhaps Thomas Prince can be forgiven for taking eight years to write about the first decade of New England’s history, since he...
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9.6K1MassachusettsTiny Militia Captures Crew of Huge British Warship HMS Somerset
In one of the most remarkable engagements of the American Revolution, the tiny militia of Truro captured more than 400 sailors and...
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16.9K26Arts and LeisureEpitaphs Tell Tales in New England’s Graveyards
Inscribed in stone in hundreds of old New England graveyards are the sometimes sad, sometimes funny epitaphs describing how people lived and...
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87.1K30MassachusettsThe Heroic Rescue of the Pendleton Crew, 1952
On Feb. 18, 1952, four men risked their lives in a howling nor’easter off Cape Cod to save 32 mariners on the shipwrecked...
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