All posts tagged "Thomas Morton"
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13.1KMassachusettsMyles Standish and the Lost Colony of Massachusetts
In March 1623, leaders of the struggling Plymouth Plantation dispatched their paid military leader Myles Standish to a coastal settlement 25 miles...
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9.2KBusiness and LaborSix Stops From the People’s Guide to Greater Boston
One of our favorite books of 2020 is the People’s Guide to Greater Boston, a tour guide that goes beyond the usual...
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7.6K1Arts and LeisureOscar Wilde Stirs Up Boston
In an early display of homophobia, 60 Harvard students dressed up like the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde when he delivered a lecture...
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55.0K45MassachusettsThe Maypole That Infuriated the Puritans
Had it not been for his May Day party with a giant Maypole, Thomas Morton might have established a New England colony...
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42.9K22MassachusettsThe Puritans Ban Gambling and a Whole Lot of Other Things
The Puritans had barely arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony when they banned gambling. And then they banned a lot of other...
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