All posts tagged "Thoreau"
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4.0K4Arts and LeisureThoreau and Wyeth: Born Under the Same Sign
When Andrew Wyeth was born exactly 100 years to the day after the birth of Henry David Thoreau, his father was delighted....
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23.0K19Arts and LeisureThe Two Loves of Louisa May Alcott
Before Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women, she wrote a book about a young girl named Sylvia in love with an intellectual...
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15.2K49MassachusettsRemembering the Great Snow of 1717 in New England
The worst winter ever in New England was probably not 2015, but 1717, when staggering amounts of snow fell in what became...
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6.3K2MassachusettsThe Amazing Escape of Franklin Sanborn in 1860
One April evening in 1860. Franklin Sanborn answered a knock on the door of his home in Concord, Mass. Deputy U.S. Marshal...
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6.9K15MassachusettsElizabeth Peabody, Always a Bridesmaid…
In 1832, a young widower named Horace Mann moved into a Boston boardinghouse where he met two intellectual schoolteachers from Salem, Mary...
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4.9K13Arts and LeisureJames Fields and the Old Corner Bookstore
In the middle of the 18th century, visitors to the Old Corner Bookstore would find James Thomas Fields laughing and talking with...
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