All posts tagged "Stockbridge Mass."
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2.3KArts and LeisureRachel Field, Rediscovered on a Maine Island
Rachel Field today is remembered through her children’s book, Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, but she also wrote several bestsellers for adults,...
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4.3KMassachusettsAgrippa Hull, Race Under British Rule
After decades of neglect the common burial grounds of slaves are now being documented, honored and preserved from New York to Mississippi...
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4.4KbostonMary Antin, Poster Child for Letting Immigrants Into America
Mary Antin wrote a poem praising George Washington just a few years after she arrived in Boston a poor, 13-year-old Russian Jew...
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4.8KArts and LeisureIs There a John La Farge in Your Town?
You just might be living near a John La Farge window if you live in Rhode Island or Massachusetts, and in any...
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18.1KCrime and ScandalHenriette Desportes Leaves the Scandals of Paris for a Stockbridge Minister
By the time she died in 1875, people knew Henriette Desportes as a minister’s wife in Stockbridge, Mass. But behind that staid...
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8.5K2Arts and LeisureNew England Places To Visit: Museums, Cemeteries, Battlefields and a Rummage Sale
Even during the dreariest spring, New England holds a wealth of places to visit for history lovers. There are battlefields for the...
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