All posts tagged "writers"
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3.2KArts and LeisureSix Fun Facts About Kurt Vonnegut on Cape Cod
Kurt Vonnegut wrote the kind of books that students in the 1960s bought to stoke their outrage and disdain. Outrage over the...
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3.4KArts and LeisureA Green Mountain Boy Stars in an 1839 Romance Novel, Heaving Bosoms and All
Green Mountain Boy Seth Warner might have been a forgotten Revolutionary War hero had he not appeared in an 1839 romance novel....
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3.7KArts and LeisureSix More Artist Homes In New England
The creative spirit that moves people to sculpt and paint also tends to inspire an interesting artist home. Lucrative commissions in the...
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19.6K1Business and LaborHow French-Canadian Textile Workers Came to New England
The story of a French-Canadian textile worker named Phillippe Lemay is the story of thousands of Quebecois farmers who came to New...
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9.7K1Arts and LeisureThe Willey Family Tragedy and a Painting Create White Mountain Tourism
When the Samuel Willey family moved to Crawford Notch in 1825, they unwittingly set in motion a chain of events that turned...
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3.4K1ConnecticutNine New England Tax Resisters
Abolition, war and injustice have inspired tax resisters in New England since even before the American Revolution. And well after the American...
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3.0KBusiness and LaborIn 1770 Silversmith Samuel Casey Narrowly Escaped the Gallows
Samuel Casey was a talented, well-respected silversmith in Kingstown, R.I in the mid-1700s. Casey made teapots, tankards, and porringers as well as...
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22.2K11Arts and LeisureMaxfield Parrish, A Mechanic Who Painted Fantastically
The landscape of Vermont and New Hampshire inspired Maxfield Parrish in 1922 to create the lush, romantic painting Daybreak. Daybreak became the...
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7.3K10ConnecticutSix Amazing Indian Women From New England
Indian women faced double discrimination since the first European colonists arrived in the Americas. Many fought back against the prejudice that destroyed...
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4.7K5New England PlacesSix New England Places That Became A Fictional Setting
Practically any place in New England could become a fictional setting, given the region’s strong literary tradition and distinctive landscape. Good writers...
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