In 1838, a handful of immigrant families stepped off the Boston docks onto a steamboat bound for a new Irish utopia in Aroostook County, Maine. They hoped the County’s rich …
Religion & Social Movements
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On the Feast of St. Sebastian, in foul weather or fair, an outdoor spectacle takes place in the streets of two places: Middletown, Conn., and Melilli, Sicily. Hundreds of the …
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When a white-robed figure strode down Commercial Street in Bath, Maine, in 1854 with a battered brass horn and calling himself the Angel Gabriel, the locals didn’t yet know that …
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It’s not very often that a man of God has an appointment with the hangman. In 1692, the Rev. George Burroughs had just such an appointment, but then again, since …
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It started for Charles Eastman before he graduated from college. “A Dartmouth Sioux Indian sophomore’s native name is Wiychpeyatamicasta, but he passes as Charles A. Eastman” read an 1885 short …
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Ruth Fish Jenkins defied New England’s mid-19th-century conventions when she went to sea with her husband. Women were supposed to stay at home, take care of the children and set …
