All posts tagged "Vergennes Vt."
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18.3K8ConnecticutThe First Town Meeting Still Going in Six States
Town Meeting dates to the European settlement of New England, and it persists today in town halls, schools and auditoriums. Not to...
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33.4K1Crime and ScandalThe Madness of Vermont’s Ezra Smith
To this day nobody really knows what happened in August of 1877 to Deacon Ezra Smith of Vergennes, Vermont. Was he engulfed...
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10.4K4Politics and MilitaryCol. Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Not a Fan of the Mexican War
Col. Ethan Allen Hitchcock, grandson of the Revolutionary War hero, struggled with questions of right and wrong during his long military career....
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21.2K1Politics and MilitaryEthan Allen Hitchcock Gets Word of Jefferson Davis’ Capture ‘In Curious Guise’
Ethan Allen Hitchcock was quite satisfied to learn Jefferson Davis was not only captured just after the Civil War ended, but captured in...
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