All posts tagged "Thoreau"
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8.8K4Massachusetts6 Famous Franco-American Writers from New England
Let’s face it, Franco-American writers never receive their due. They tend to get pigeonholed as regional writers, and they can’t take advantage...
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26.7K9Science and NatureSix Ways the Little Ice Age Made History
The Little Ice Age changed New England history in ways that historians are only beginning to understand. Though scientists don’t agree on...
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25.7K4ConnecticutEight Things You Didn’t Know About the Pumpkin (But Want To)
If the English colonists knew how much pumpkin they’d eat when they got to New England, they might have had second thoughts...
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15.8K2New England PlacesSix Places Workers Were Killed in New England
Over the course of New England history many thousands of workers were killed on the job. Some, like Vermont quarry workers, died...
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18.1K1Science and Nature7 Strange Things New Englanders Did During the Dog Days of Summer
Dogs were said to go mad during the dog days of summer, and New Englanders have certainly done strange things in the...
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14.8K18Business and LaborHow the Thoreau Pencil Wrote, and Paid for, Walden
The Thoreau pencil was a triumph in Henry David Thoreau’s lifetime, overshadowed since by the posthumous fame of his books and essays...
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