All posts tagged "utopia"
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10.8K2Arts and LeisureThe Real People Behind Little Women
A century and a half after Little Women first reached the bookstore shelves, the story of four sisters and their mother still...
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7.9K2Arts and LeisureSix Historic Buildings With a Clerestory
The clerestory window makes a lot of sense in New England because of the short, short days during the long, long winter....
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8.2K2ConnecticutDavid Ruggles, the Go-To Conductor on the Underground Railroad
David Ruggles helped 600 enslaved people to freedom during the 1830s despite attempts to kill him, kidnap him and burn down his...
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25.1K9MassachusettsLouisa May Alcott, 10: Child Laborer at the Fruitlands Commune
When she was 10 years old, Louisa May Alcott in 1843 was taken to live at a commune called Fruitlands by her...
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4.7K7Arts and LeisureJohn Updike in ‘Couples’ Titillated America, Infuriated His Neighbors
In 1968, John Updike blew the cover off a high-living, raucous little group of people in Ipswich, Mass., with the publication of...
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46.3K44MassachusettsThe 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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