All posts tagged "Worcester Mass."
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3.3KCrime and ScandalBathsheba Spooner, Hanged for Murder—Or For Her Loyalist Father?
In March of 1778, a traveler brought strange news to Sandwich, Mass., about an unnatural murder in Brookfield. A woman had hired...
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8.7K1Business and LaborWhen Poor Apprentice Laborers Were 2 Years Old
In 1754, Boston’s overseer of the poor bound out Joseph Clifton, aged two, as an apprentice to Aaron Clinton, a brickmaker in...
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17.2K1Arts and LeisureDanger, Disappointment and Desire: Colonial Superstitions About Moles
Superstitions about moles were commonplace in colonial New England. One of the most pernicious held that moles and other markings in certain...
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11.2KBusiness and LaborHepsibeth Hemenway, the Nipmuc Cakemaker of Worcester, Mass.
Hepsibeth Hemenway was a mixed-race laundress and cook who never ventured far from Worcester, Mass., but she fascinates people more than 150...
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18.7K2ConnecticutNew England’s Forgotten Puerto Rican Riots
From 1967 to 1979, Puerto Rican riots broke out in New England cities from Waterbury, Conn., to Worcester, Mass. Outsiders didn’t understand...
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8.6K11bostonFrederick Law Olmsted Plans A Cemetery or a Hundred
Chances are good you have encountered the work of Frederick Law Olmsted more than once in your lifetime. You’ve probably set foot...
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