All posts tagged "stowe"
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8.2K1MassachusettsJefferson Davis in New England – The Unlikely Campaign
Mississippi Senator Jefferson Davis, who would go on to become president of the confederate states during the Civil War, was no stranger...
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8.8K5ConnecticutHow To Make an Election Cake
Election Cake was a highlight of the Puritan celebration of Election Day, one of the important colonial holidays along with Commencement Day...
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7.7KConnecticutFrederick Law Olmsted Finds a Wife (But It Wasn’t Easy)
Frederick Law Olmsted had played the field of pretty, well-to-do young ladies in 1851 when he decided it was time to get...
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12.7K6New England PlacesSix of New England’s Most Famous Writers Houses
New England is dotted with famous writers houses, a testament to the Puritan ideal of literacy and the region’s many publishing houses....
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9.2K9Business and LaborIn 1867 the First New England Snowbirds Travel South – ‘Feeling Young and Frisky.’
In 1867, Harriet Beecher Stowe and her husband Calvin, tiring of New England’s cold climate, visited Florida for the first time. They...
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12.7K2Arts and LeisureThe Pet Names of Famous New Englanders
When the Pilgrims came to America on the Mayflower, they brought with them two dogs described as a spaniel and a mastiff....
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