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18 Patriots Who Wouldn’t Die
1965 Drought
20th Maine Regiment
54th MASSACHUSETTS REGIMENT
–54th Massachusetts Regiment, Glory of
—Massachusetts United States Colored Troops in the Civil War
—Waits To Get Paid
A & P Supermarket Empire
ABENAKI
—Names for the Full Moon
—French and Indian Wars, Beginners Guide to
ACADIANS
—Exiled
–Refuse to Take Loyalty Oath
ACCENTS
—Boston Accent, How To Talk With One (Not For the Faint of Haht)
—Connecticut
—Maine
–New Hampshire
—Rhode Island
ADAMS, ABIGAIL
–Love Story, John And
—Remember the Ladies
–Matchmaker
–Vents to Mercy Otis Warren
Adams, Abigail, Relationship with Royall Tyler
Adams, Charles, Bad Boy Brother
Adams, Charles Francis
Adams, Clover
Adams, Henry
ADAMS, JOHN
–Cape Ann Earthquake
–Churchgoing Animal
—Frees Ansell Nickerson
—Gets Into Harvard, Barely
–Love Story, Abigail And
–Saves Soldier’s Life
–Slept With Ben Franklin
–Spa Day
–Supports Toussaint L’Ouverture
–Tiger Dad
ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY
–7 Fun Facts
—A Day in the Life
—Complains About Kissing
—Grieves for his Mother
—Nearly Drowns
—Slavery’s Enemy
–Takes Oath in Pants
–Tiger Dad
Adams, Louisa
Adams, Mary Hellen
ADAMS, SAM
–Has To Get a Job
—Last Puritan
—Starts a Revolution
Adams, Sherman
Agassiz, Louis
Albion Cooper Murder
ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY
–Amazed by Little Women Success
—Civil War Nurse
–Enjoys Valentine’s Day
–Franklin Sanborn escape
–Real People Behind Little Women
–Two Loves
—Votes
Alcott, May
Alden, John
Alger, Horatio
Ali, Muhammed, in Lewiston
Alice’s Restaurant
ALLEN, ETHAN
–Marries a Loyalist
–Tale From the Outhouse
—Tortured
Allen, Fanny
Allen, Fred
Allen, John, The Uncool Revolutionary
Allen, Jolley
Ames, Ed
AMES, MARY
—On Edisto Island
—Starts a School
—Teaches Freed Slaves
Amoskeag Mill Disaster
Ancient and Honorables
Anderson, Marian
Andrea Doria
Andre, John
Andrews, John
Annapolis Moved to Newport
Antis, The
Apess, William
Apizza
APPLES
—Appleseed, Johnny
—Baldwin
–Cider Traditions
Appleseed, Johnny
Apthorp, Fanny
Aqua Velva Factory Town
Arbella
Army of Two
Arnold, Benedict, and Rhode Island Quakers
ARNOLD, BENEDICT
—Captures Fort Ticonderoga
—Complains to Silas Deane
—DeBlois, Betsy
–Expedition (see Haskell, Caleb)
—Fort Griswold Massacre
—Treason Unmasked
—Warning About, by John Brown
Aroostook War
Atherton, Humphrey, Curse ofp
Attucks, Crispus
Atwater, Dorence, and Andersonville Prison
Auerbach, Red
Awful Awful
Ayer, James Cook
B
Babson’s Boulders
Bacon, David
Bacon, Delia
Bagley, Sarah
Baker, Hettie Gray
Baker, Hobey
Baldwin, Henry, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Ball, Marietta
Ballard, Martha
Balsams Resort
Bambi
Bandel, Betty
Bar Harbor Babylon
Barefoot, Walter
Barlow, Joel
BARNUM Family
–Facts About P.T.
—Grandson Herbert Barnum Seeley
—Seven-Mule
Bartlett, Josiah
Baseball Eccentrics
Bass, Striped
Bates Bedspread
Battles of Concord, Lexington and Menotomy
Bean, Mary
Bean, L.L.
Beaver
Begin the Beguine
Belmont, August
Bennett, Gordon
Bennett, Philo
Berenson, Senda
Berkshire Hathaway
Berlin Turnpike
Bernstein, Leonard
Bellamy, Black Sam: The Pirate Who Fought Smart, Harmed Few, Scored Big
Billings, Josh
Bisbee, Lewis and George
Bishop, Alice
Bissell, Isaac
Black Kings and Governors
Black Migration
Blackout, Great Northeastern of 1965
Blanchard, Arthur
Blue Jacket
Bomber That Crashed in New Hampshire
Boon Island Cannibals
BOOTH, JOHN WILKES
—Buys Property in Back Bay
—Hale, Lucy Lambert, and
—Killed by Boston Corbett
Boott, J. Wright
BOSTON
—Accent, How To Talk With One (Not For the Faint of Haht)
—Allen, Jolley
—Athenaeum
—Brahmin, Brief History
—Brown, James, Saves Boston
—By Streetcar
—Celebrates Birth of a Prince in 1718
—Chow, Death of
—Exchange Coffee House
—Fire of 1872
—Frazier, George
—Garrett, Oliver
—Globe
–Halifax Explosion
—Havlicek Stole the Ball
–Hayden, Lewis
—Houdini Exposes Witch of Lime Street
—Irish
—Italian Fishing Fleet
—John WIlkes Booth Buys Land in Back Bay
—Lind, Jenny
—Marathon
–Massacre
—Mayor Frees Rolling Stones From Rhode Island Police
—Militian Muster Murder of 1787
–Molasses Flood
—Nimoy, Leonard
—Old South Rescue
–Other Side of Boston Tea Party
—Pickwick Club Collapse
–Pope Night
—Post Cane
–Press Gang Riots
—Readville Race Track
—Redskins
–Revolt of 1689
—Riots
–Ritz-Carlton
–Rock ‘n Roll Riot
–Saturday Evening Girls
–Seeing By Streetcar in 1906
–Slave Riot of 1854
–Tea Party, Club
—Tong Wars
Boston College Eagle
Boston Corners
Boston Globe
Boston Irish Gang Wars
BOSTON MARATHON
—Brown, Tarzan
—DeMar, Clarence
–Kelley, Johnny
—Trivia
Boston News-Letter
Boston Post Cane
Boston Post Road Historical Markers
Boston Redskins
Boston Tea Party Club
Boutwell, George Sewall
Bowler, Metcalf
Bowditch, Nathaniel
BRADSTREET, ANNE
—First Poet
–Good Puritan Mother
Brady Gang
BRAHMIN
—Anti-Semites Fight Brandeis
—Bradlee, Ben
—Brief History
—Celebrity Priest
—Hale, Ellen Day
—McKean, Margarett Sargent
—Rough Riders
—Sears, Eleonora
—Suffragist Night of Terror
Branded Hand
BRANDEIS, LOUIS
—Celebrates Hanukkah
—Nomination Blocked
Brewster, Caleb
BRIDGEPORT
—P.T. Barnum
—Socialist Mayor
—Women Win Eight Hour Day
BRIDGES, FIDELIA
–Household Name
–Lonely Painter
Brine, Salty
Brinks Robbery
Broadwell, Lucina; Murder of
Brown, Comical
Brown, James, Saves Boston
Brown, Tarzan
Brown, Jesse, and Tom Hudner
Browne, Matilda
Bruins 1939
Bryan, Ashley
Bryant, William Jennings
Buda, Mario, the Other Boston Bomber
Buffalo Soldiers
Bundling
Burbank, Luther
Burgess, Abbie
Burnside, Ambrose
Burroughs, Stephen
Business Plot
Butler, Benjamin
Buzzards Bay Leper Colony
Byles, Mather
Byrd, Richard
C
Cagney, James
Calais, Raid on
Caleb Cushing, Destruction of
Calorie Counting Begins in Connecticut
Camouflage School
Camp, Walter
Canaan Mob
Candlemas
Candlemas Massacre
Candy, New England
CAPE COD
—Bacon, David
—Bourne, Benjamin
–Branded Hand
—Buzzards Bay Leper Colony
–Camp Edwards
—Canal
—Cobb, Elijah
—Crowell, Elmer
–Falmouth Strawberries
—Gosnold, Bartholomew
–How Ptown Got So Gay
—Jenny Lind Tower
–Kettle Holes
–Kurt Vonnegut
—Marconi Radio Station
—Mashpee Nine
–National Seashore
—Outermost House
–Salt
—Sandwich Glass
—Sleepy John Sears
–Wellfleet Oyster
—When the British Bombarded Falmouth
CAPP, AL
—Invents Sadie Hawkins Day
–Meets John and Yoko
CAPTIVITY STORIES
–Johnson, Susannah
–Revolutionary Prisons
–Rice Boys
–Williams, Eunice
Carnegie Libraries
CARSON, RACHEL
—At the Edge of the Atlantic
—Silent Spring
Casey, Samuel
Cather, Willa
Celery Bug Bill
Center Church Crypt
Chamberlain, Joshua
Champ
Champlain, Samuel de, Starts a War
Champlain, the Irish Lake
Charles W. Morgan
Charter Oak
Cheever, Ezekiel
Cheever, John
Cheswell, Wentworth: The Black Man Who Rode With Revere
Cheverus, Jean-Louis
CHILD, JULIA
—In Love in Ceylon
—French Chef
–Knife That Brought Her to Cambridge
Child, Lydia Maria
Chinook, Arthur Walden and
Chow, Death of
CHRISTMAS
—Bells on Christmas Day, I Heard the
–Dickens Brings Christmas Carol to New England
—Colonial Christmas Traditions
—Downtown Department Stores Spelled Christmas, When
—Gilbert, A.C.
–Kennedy Family Christmas in White House
—Prang, Louis
–Stockbridge Steps into Rockwell Painting
–Woonsocket Mill Order
Church, Dr. Benjamin
Church, Frederic
City Upon a Hill
Clam Chowder War
Clark, William Smith
Clemens, Olivia Langdon
Cleveland Belonged to Connecticut
Cobb, Elijah
Cocoanut Grove Fire
COD
—Sacred Cod, Theft of
—Started American Revolution
Coffin, Judith
Cogswell, Alice
Cohan, George M.
Colburn, Zareh
Colchester Molasses Shortage
Cold Friday of 1810
Cole, Eunice
Colepaugh, William
COLONIAL CUSTOMS
–Apple Cider Traditions
—Bundling
—Courtship
—Dinner
—Dreams That Mean Wealth
—Expressions About Physiology
–-Funerals
—Games
–-Insults
–New Year
—Outhouses
—Pranks
—Smock Weddings (Getting Married Naked)
—Superstitions
—Superstitions About Moles
Colt, John
Colt, Samuel
Concord Minute Man
CONNECTICUT
—Accent
–Anderson, Marian
—Aqua Velva Factory Town
—Barkhamsted Lighthouse
—Boroughs
—Brewster, Caleb
—Chapman, Gerald
—Charter Oak
–Cleveland Belonged to
—Colchester Molasses Shortage
—Colepaugh, William
—Counting Calories
—Crandall, Prudence
—Cranna, Hannah
—Dropo, Walt
–Dudleytown Curse
—Dunbar, Moses
–Fitzgerald, Scott and Zelda; Honeymoon in Westport
–Fundamental Orders of
—Hallett, Elizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake
–Hart, Dolores
—Hello
—Hitchcock Chair Craze
—Huskymania Born
—Jerome, Chauncey
—Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company
—Leopold, Archduke
–Mad Hatters of Danbury
—Manslaughter Became Murder
—Marder, Al
–Mickey Mouse Watch
—Monroe, Marilyn in Connecticut
–Moodus Noises
—New London Race Riots
—New Haven Regicides
—Newsgirls
–Paul, Moses
—Pennamite Wars
—Pepin, Jacques
—Reddy the Blacksmith
–Robinson, Jackie Buys a House
—Scrabble
—Small Bells
—Smedley, Samuel
–Stoddard, John
—Stonington
—Sumner League
—Terry, Eli
–Thanksgiving in Sharon During the Revolution
—Tory Den
—UN Kicked Out By Greenwich
–Wethersfield Red Onion
—Witch Hysteria Cover-Up
—XYZ Bank Robber
Continental Army Facts
Convent, Burned by Know-Nothings
COOLIDGE, CALVIN
—Silent or Cheap?
–Sworn in by kerosene lamp
–Takes on Mrs. Jaffray
—Wit
Coolidge, Grace
COPLEY, JOHN SINGLETON
–Tea Party Riot
—Old South
–Paints John Adams World
–Traveling companion from hell
Coppertoe Shoes
Corbett, Boston
CORBIN, AUSTIN
—New Hampshire Robber Baron
—‘We do not like the Jews…’
Cornell, Rebecca, Murder of
Costello, Jessie
Cota, Norman: Overlooked Hero of D-Day and the Next
Cotton, John, Jr.
Covey, James
Cracker, Common
Cramer, Jennie
Crandall, Prudence
Cranna, Hannah
Cranston, Samuel
Creesy, Eleanor
CRIME
—Bacon, David
—Ball, Marietta
—Bishop, Alice
—Brinks Robbery
—Broadwell, Lucina; Murder of
—Chapman, Gerald
—Colt, John
–Cornell, Rebecca, Murder of
—Costello, Jessie
–Cramer, Jennie
—Dexter Savings Bank Robbery
–Evans, Franklin
—Fairbanks, Jason
–Faithfull, Starr
—Goodridge, Eliljah
—Herbert Fuller Murder
—Linnell, Avis
—Merry Widow Murder of 1936
—Mudget, H.W., Married To
—Murderous Joseph Knapp
—Nutshell Studies
—Parkman-Webster Murder
—Places Renamed Out of Spite
–Places Where a Gallows Once Stood
—Solomon, King Charles
—Somnambulist Murder of Pembroke, N.H.
—Sprague, Amasa
—Tappan, Jolly Jane: The Killer Nurse Obsessed with Death
—Titanic, Murder on the
—Todd, Thelma, Death of
–Wallingford Shoebox Murder Mystery
—Walsh, Danny
—XYZ Bank Robber
Crosby, Harry
Cross, Edward
Crowell, Elmer
CRUCIBLE
—What Arthur Miller Got Right
—What Arthur Miller Got Wrong
Cuffe, Paul
Cullen, Jim; Lynching of
Currency (Easy Money)
Currier & Ives
Cushman, Charlotte
D
Dale, Mercie, Curse of
Dalton, Emmet
Dana, Samuel
Dancer’s Image
D’Anville, Duc
Dark Day of 1780
Dartmouth in World War II
Daughters of Liberty
Davis, Bette
Day, Lucinda
Dean, William
Desportes, Henrietta
Dewey, Melvil
Dexter Savings Bank Robbery
DeWolf, James
Dexter, Andrew
Dexter, Timothy
Dickens, Charles
Dighton Rock
Dilboy, George
DISASTERS
—Amoskeag Mill Disaster
—Grover Shoe Factory Disaster
—Halifax Explosion
—Hoosac Tunnel Disaster
—Mill River Dam
—Molasses Flood
–Pemberton Mill Disaster
—Pickwick Club Collapse
—Portland Gale
–Royal Tar
–Texas Tower No. 4
—USS Bennington
—Whaling
—Worst Train Wreck in New Hampshire History
Dix Island, Duchess of
Doctor Dolittle
Donovan, Marion
Doolittle, Amos
DOUGLASS, FREDERICK
—Book That Taught Him To Speak
–Escapes Slavery
—Facts About
—Fifth of July Speech
‘I glory in the battle’
Downtown Department Stores Spelled Christmas, When
Dropo, Walt
Drought, 1762
Drought, 1965
DuBois, W.E.B.
Duchess of Dix Island
Duke, Doris
Dunbar, Moses
Dungeon Rock
Dutch Elm Disease
E
Early Laws of Massachusetts
EARTHQUAKES
–Cape Ann Earthquake of 1755
–Earthquake of 1727
—Moodus Noises
Easter Rising
Eastman, Crystal
Edes, Benjamin
Edwards, Jonathan
Ellet, Elizabeth
Elliot, Maxine
Eltinge, Julian
EMERY, SARAH ANNA
—1799 Tornado
—Grasshopper Plains Swindle
—Hearing George Whitefield
—Uncle Sam Becomes a Methodist
Endicott Pear Tree
Epenow
Epidemics, History of
Epitaphs, Part I
Epitaphs, Part II
Equity, Maine, and Divorce Reform
Exchange Coffee House
F
Fairbanks, Jason
Faithfull, Starr
Fall River Chow Mein Sandwich
Fall River Skeleton in Armor
Faneuil Hall Weathervane
FARMER, FANNY
—Cookbook Controversy
—Could She Cook?
Farmerettes
Farrand, Beatrix
Fast Day
Fat Men’s Club
Faulkner Murals
Faunce, Thomas
Fenian Brotherhood Invades Canada
FIEDLER, ARTHUR
—Conducts the Boston Pops
—Fame, Despite the Musicians
—Field, Rachel
FIRES
—1947, The Year Maine Burned
–Boston of 1872
–Cocoanut Grove
–Hartford Circus Fire
—Lakeport, N.H.
—Portsmouth, N.H.
—Rhode Island: Four Days in May
–Salem, Mass., 1914
Fisk, Diamond Jim
Fitch, Edward
FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT
—Disastrous Tea With Edith Wharton
–Zelda, and: Honeymoon in Westport
Five Satins
Flags, Revolutionary
FLOOD
—The 1936 Flood That Engulfed New England
—Mill River Flood of 1874
–Molasses Flood
—Vermont, 1927
Flu Epidemic, 1918
Fluffernutter Sandwich, Revolutionary Roots
FLYING CLOUD
—Premature Obituary of Captain
—Sets Record to San Francisco
FOOD
—10 Eponymous Foods
—Apizza
–Awful Awful
–Baked Beans
–Baldwin Apple
—Banbury Cake
–Black Cake
–Blueberry, Maine; Goes National
—Candy
–Clam Chowder, How It Came to New England
—Clam Chowder War
–Clam Chowder, the Jacques Pepin Way
—Cracker, Common
—Donut
–Eat Like a President
–Election Cake
—Fall River’s Famous Chow Mein Sandwich
–Famous Berwick Sponge Cake
–Revolutionary Roots of the Fluffernutter Sandwich
—Rumford Soup
–Fried Clam, Invention of
–Howard Johnson’s
–Italian Thanksgiving
–Ketchup
–Marlborough Pie
–Mincemeat Pie
—Maple Syrup
–Molasses Flood
–Molasses Shortage, Colchester
—Narragansett Beer
—Needham: The Potato Candy Sacred and Peculiar to Maine
—Pie
—Plum Pudding
—Quahog
–Russian Dressing
–Salem Chop Suey
—Squirrel Nut Zippers
–Wellfleet Oyster
—Wethersfield Red Onion
—Whoopie Pie
–-ZaRex
—Zeppole
FOOTBALL
—Camp, Walter
–High School Rivalries
–Football Star Jack Kerouac
Forbes Library
Ford, Sophia
Fore River Shipyard
Fort Blunder
Fort Ticonderoga Captured
Foss, Sam Walter
Foster, Enoch
FRANCO-AMERICANS
–Acadians Exiled
–Refuse to Take Loyalty Oath
—The Little Canadas of New England
–French-Canadian Textile Workers
—French Parish Gets Irish Priest
–St. Ann’s
–Woonsocket Mill Order
Frank Brothers
Franklin, Ann Smith
FRANKLIN, BEN
–Cape Ann Earthquake
–Cotton Mather and
—High Tide Storm and
–Slept with John Adams
Franklin Library
Franklin, William
Frazier, George
French Parish, Irish Priest
FROST, ROBERT
—Lets JFK Do the Unthinkable
–Marriage, Delayed
—Night of Terror
–On World War II
—Stone Walls
Full Moon, Abenaki Names for
Fuller, Margaret
G
Gage, Thomas
Gagnon, Rene
GARDENS, GARDENING
–Burbank, Luther
—Farrand, Beatrix
–Potato Patch Plan
–School Garden Army of World War I
—Victory Gardens in WWII
GARDNER, ISABELLA STEWART
–Champagne and Donuts Party
—Gay Icon
—Sargent, John Singer, BFF
Garrett, Oliver
Gaspee Affair Part I and Part II
German POW Camp
Ghost Locomotives of Maine Wilderness
Gibbs, Katharine
Gibran, Kahlil
Gibson, Charles Dana
Gilbert, A.C.
Gilley, William
Gilmore, Tobias
Glover’s Regiment
Goddard, Robert
Goldman, Emma
Goodridge, Eliljah
Gores of Northern New England
Gosnold, Bartholomew
Grandparents, How New England Invented
Grant, Frank
Greeley, Horace
Green, Pumpsie
Green Book, Negro Travelers’ Guide
Greenland, Henry
Green, Hetty
Greene, Catherine
Grosvenor, Sarah
Grover Shoe Factory Disaster
Guiney, Louise
Gun Valley
Guthrie, Arlo, Arrested
H
Hale Family, Peterkin Papers and
Hale, Lucy Lambert
HALE, NATHAN
—Capture
—Hull, William, and Reputation of
Hale, Sarah Josepha
Hallett, Elizabeth Fones Feake Winthrop
Hamilton, Margaret
Hancock, Dorothy Quincy
Hancock, Ebenezer
HANCOCK, JOHN
–Snubs George Washington
—Liberty Affair
Haraden, Jonathan
Hart, Dolores
HARTFORD
—Ancient Burying Ground
—Bushnell Park
–Circus Fire
—Controversy of 1650
—Insurance Story
—Muster Day Murder
—Riot, 1722
—Sex Workers of 1913
—Sigourney, Mrs., the Bad Poetess
—Stevens, Wallace
—Theater Banned
—Tucker, Sophie
—Working Man’s Friend Who Busted the Newsies Strike
HARVARD
—George Washington Breaks Up Snowball Fight
—Hasty Pudding Theatricals
—John Adams Gets Into, Barely
—Lucy Downing Founds Harvard
—Nathaniel Eaton, Sadistic President
—Teddy Roosevelt Snarky About Harvard Classics
—Williamina Fleming, From Maid to Astronomer
HASKELL, CALEB
–Siege of Quebec
Hassam, Childe
Hasty Pudding Theatricals
Havlicek Stole the Ball
Hay, John
Hayden, Lewis
Hazard, Rowland
Haunted Houses
Hawkins, Christopher
HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL
—Body Discovered by Franklin Pierce
—Fountain of Youth
—Holes up in His Bedroom
Hawthorne, Rose
Healy, James
Hearthstone Castle
HEAT WAVES
–1911, So Deadly It Drove People Insane
–1896 Launches Roosevelt
Heard The Bells on Christmas Day: Hope Springs From Despair
Hebrew, U.S. Language
Hello, Why We Say It
Hemenway, Hepsibeth
Hempstead, Joshua
Henderson, Edwin
Hepburn, Katharine
Herbert Fuller Murder
Heroic Moms
Hewitt, Marvin
Hill, Betty and Barney
Hine, Lewis
HISTORIC HOUSES
Hitchcock Chair Craze
HITCHCOCK, ETHAN ALLEN
—Hears About Jefferson Davis Capture
—Not a Fan of the Mexican War
—View of Indians
Hoaxes
Holidays We No Longer Celebrate, New England
Holmes, Obadiah
HOLMES, JR., OLIVER WENDELL
—Battle of Antietam and
—Beautiful Life
HOMER, WINSLOW
—Civil War
—Country School
Hooper, Harry
Hoosac Tunnel Disaster
Hopkins, Stephen: Mayflower Pilgrim
Hopper, Edward
Hosmer, Harriet
Houdini, Harry
Howard Johnson’s
Howe, Elias
Howe, George
HOWE, JULIA WARD
—Battle Hymn of the Republic
—Mother’s Day for Peace
Hudner, Tom and Jesse Brown
Hunt, Lester
Hurricane Carol, So Deadly Her Name Was Retired
HURRICANE OF 1938
–Great 1938 Hurricane
—Miraculous Ride, 1938 Storm
—Terrified and Stranded
Huskymania Born
Hutchinson, Anne
HUTCHINSON, THOMAS
–Sacking of Mansion
—Tries To Get Son a Job
I
IMMIGRANTS, HOW THEY CAME
—Armenians
—Greek
—Irish
—Italian
—Jewish
–Polish, How They Came
–Portuguese, How They Came
–Puritans, Great Migration of
–Scots-Irish
—Scottish POWs
Ince, Thomas: Death of
INDEPENDENCE DAY
—Adams, John, Gets the Date Wrong
—Americanization Day
–Facts About
—Rhode Island Independence Day
–Trumbull, John, Gets a Few Things Wrong
Indian Population Decimated
Insider’s Guide to the Colleges, 1972
Ipswich Fright
Ipswich Mill Strike
Ireson, Skipper
IRISH
—French Parish Gets an Irish Priest
—How They Came to New England
–Irish-American Army Invades Canada
—Irish, Boston
–Irish Famine Ships, Guide to
—Irish Made Mark Before Famine Ships
–Irish Riviera
ITALIANS
—How They Came
—Italian Thanksgiving
–Italians Declared Enemy Aliens
—Little Italy
Iwo Jima Flag Raising
J
Jacataqua
Jackson, N.H., Gets New Name
Jacobs, Harriet
Jacobson, Henning
James, Joshua
Jenny Lind Tower
Jerome, Chauncey
Jimmy Fund
Johnson, Howard
Johnson, Susannah
Jones, Alfred Winslow
Jones, Fan
Jumping Frenchmen
Jurassic Armored Mud Balls
K
Karolik, Martha Codman
Kate Harding, Wreck of
Keayne, Robert
Keller, Helen
Kelley, Johnny
Kennedy, Ethel, Night She Met Jackie Bouvier
KENNEDY, JACQUELINE
–Attends Miss Porter’s
—Camelot
—First Black First Lady?
–Gets Married
KENNEDY, JOHN F.
—Born in Brookline
—Camelot
–City Upon a Hill Speech
–Designs Air Force One
—Family Christmas in White House
—Gets Married
—Jelly Donut, Did Not Say
–Wit
KENNEDY, ROBERT
–9 Facts
Kennedy, Rose
Kent, Corita
KEROUAC, JACK
–Fantasy Baseball
–Football Star
–Rolling Thunder Visits Grave
Kettle Holes
Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company
Kidd, William
King, Clarence
King Tut Ticket Scam
King, William
Kinsey, Alfred, and Sex in New England
Kipling, Rudyard
Kneeland, Abner
Knight, Amelia Stewart
KNIGHT, MADAME SARAH
—Encounters Shee Creature
—Makes It Over a River
—Observes Connecticut
—Rides Post Road Again
—Rides Post Road Alone
–Rides Post Road Home
KNOX, HENRY
–Facts About
–Hamilton and
—Love Letters of
Kumbaya
L
LaFarge, John
LaFarge, John; Guide to
Landau, Jon
Lane, Rose Wilder
Larcom, Lucy
Latham, Mary
Law, Rodman and Ruth
LEAR, TOBIAS
–Mysterious Death of
—Tempestuous Life of
LEARY, TIMOTHY
—10 People He Turned On
—Marijuana Tax
Leopold, Archduke
Lerner, Pro
Lewis, Ida
Liberty Affair
Liberty Tree Christened
Lightning Storms of 1768
LINCOLN, ABRAHAM
–Bixby Letter
—Entertained by Artemus Ward
—In New England, Facts About
—Kidnapping Suggested by Melvin Dwinnell
—Little People’s Petition, And
—Moody, Dwight, Meets in Little Hell
—Puritan Ancestors
—Sleeping Sentinel
—Wide Awakes
Lincoln, Joe
Lincoln Memorial
LINCOLN, ROBERT TODD
—Adam Clayton Powell, And
—Memorial
–MTL Insanity File of
Lind, Jenny
Lind, Jenny, Tower
Linnell, Avis
Little Annapolis
The Little Canadas of New England
Little Ice Age
Loeb, William
Londonderry, Annie
Londonderry Scots-Irish
LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH
–Courtship of
–Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
Louisbourg, Fall of
Lovecraft, H.P.
LOW, HARRIET
—Endures Easter
—Enters Forbidden City
—Goes Home
—Makes Fun
Lowell, Charles Russell
Ludington, Sybil
Lyon, Isabel
M
Macaroni Riots of Providence
Mackerel, Boston
Mad Hatters of Danbury
Madeira Earthquake
MAINE
–1947 Fires
—20th Maine Regiment
–A & P Supermarket Empire
—Accent
—Aroostook War
—Bates Bedspread
–Blueberry Goes National
—Boon Island Cannibals
–Capital Riot
—Clam Chowder War
—Colepaugh, William
—Dexter Savings Bank Robbery
—Duchess of Dix Island
—Elliot, Maxine
—Equity, Maine, and Divorce Reform
–Fan Jones
—Foster, Enoch
—Ghost Locomotives of Maine Wilderness
–Jumping Frenchmen
—King, William
–Lynching of Jim Cullen
–Marie Antoinette
—May Basket
–Menhaden Wars
–Moody, Joseph
–Northampton National Bank
—Peonage Laws
—Plane Crash, Maine, 2 in One Day
–Plantation, History of
—Raid on Calais
—St. Croix Island
—Statehood
—Stephenson, Isaac
—Unknown Soldier, Ladies of Gray, Maine, Bury
—Vanceboro Bridge, Bombing of
—Whoopie Pie
Maple Syrup
Marblehead Riots Against Smallpox
Marden, Orison Swett
Marder, Al
Margaretta, Battle of
Marie Antoinette
Marlborough Pie
Marriott, Fred
Marsh, George Perkins
Martin, Joseph Plumb
Mary Had A Little Lamb
Mashpee Nine
Massachusetts Prepares for Revolution
Massasoit
Mather, Stephen
Mather, Warren, Writes from Cold Harbor
Maule, Thomas
Maxwell, Thompson
May Basket
Mayflower Love Children
Mayflower Sailed April 5
Maypole That Infuriated the Puritans, The
McAllister, Ward, Newport Summers of
McCloskey, Robert
McCurdy, Elmer
McDonald Brothers
McLean, George
McLean Mental Hospital, 11 Famous People Committed
Meeting House, Bridgewater, Conn., Shows How Not To Build
Melon Heads of Connecticut
Memorial Day During World War II
Mencken, H.L.
Miaskiewicz, Mashie
Mickey Mouse Watch
Middlesex Canal
Militia Muster Murder of 1787
MILL GIRLS
—Bagley, Sarah
—Larcom, Lucy
–Robinson, Harriet Hanson
MILLAY, EDNA ST. VINCENT
—Gets a May Basket
—Pleads for Sacco and Vanzetti
Miller, Annie Jenness
Miller, Glenn
Minots Ledge Light
Miracle on Scituate Reservoir
Miss Porter’s School
Monroe, Henry
Monroe, Marilyn in Connecticut
Moodus Noises
Moody, Lady Deborah
Moody, Joseph
Moose Visits Paris
More, Richard
Morgan, J.P., The Robber Baron With the Disturbing Facial Feature
Morgan, Justin
Morgan, Miles
MORSE, SAMUEL
—Father of Telegraph
—Paints 36 Masterpieces
Mother Brook Canal
Motif No. 1
Moulton, Jonathan
Mount Auburn Cemetery
Mount Independence
Mount Washington Sets Wind Record
Movie Classics, 13 in New England
Muck, Karl
Mudget, H.W., Married To
Munro, Mary
Munson, Audrey: First Supermodel
Murphy, Lizzie
Mussolini, Benito Stiffs Gloucester
Mye, James
N
NAMES
–Abenaki Names for the Full Moon
—How New England Towns Got Theirs
–Maine Place Names
–Pet Names of Famous New Englanders
—Puritan Names From the Biblical to the Bizarre
—State Names: How the New England State Names Came To Be
Nancy, Schooner
Narragansett Pacer
National Anthem
Nearing, Helen
Nearing, Scott
Needham: The Potato Candy Sacred and Peculiar to Maine
Needlework Samplers, Fun Facts About
Neshobe Island
Newburyport Rum
NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY BOOKS
—A History of the Irish, As Told By Their Food
–Bar Harbor Babylon
–Eat Like a President
–Historic Apple Recipes
–Historic Italian Christmas Cookie Recipes
–Historic Thanksgiving Foods
—Love Stories From History
–New England’s Hidden Past
—Revolutionary War Sites in New England
New Englander an Insult
NEW HAMPSHIRE
—Bartlett, Josiah
—Chinook, Arthur Walden and
—Cole, Eunice
–Constitutional Convention
—Dancer’s Image
–German POW Camp
—Hale, Sarah Josepha
—Hewitt, Marvin
–How To Talk
—Iwo Jima Flag Raising
–Lady Blanche
—Moulton, Jonathan
–Mount Washington Sets Wind Record
–Ocean-Born Mary
—Old Home Days
—Old Man of the Mountain
—Peyton Place
—Pine Tree Riot
—Primary
—Recount That Lasted 19 Months
–Revere Rode to
–Russian Dressing
—Shaggs
—Sherburne, Henry
—Somnambulist Murder of Pembroke, N.H.
—Thomson, Samuel
—Volcano
—Waldron, Richard
—Wentworth, Gov. John
—Wentworth, Long John
—Whitcher, Sarah
–Winnipesaukee Water War
–WWII Bomber That Crashed
—Worst Train Wreck
NEW HAVEN
—Apizza
—Avoiding Armageddon in 1970
—Begin the Beguine
—Cramer, Jennie
—Flagg, Jared
—Garment Workers’ Strike of 1933
—Gay Puritan Injustice
—Justice, Nasty and Brutish
—Keller, Deane
—Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company
—Miller, Glenn
—Poli, S.Z.
–Regicides
—Shaw, Artie
—Tuttles of New Haven
—Wickedest City
New London Race Riot
Newport Cottages
Newsgirls, Connecticut
New York System Wiener of Rhode Island
Nichols, Sarah Peirce
Nightingale and the Slave Trade
Nimoy, Leonard
Nonantum
Nordica, Lillian
Norwalk Railroad Accident
Noyes, John Humphrey
Nutt, Emma
O
O’Callahan, Joseph T.
Ocean-Born Mary
Old Deluder Satan
OLD IRONSIDES
–Poem Published
Old Librarians Almanack
OLD LYME ART COLONY
—Browne, Matilda
—Hassam, Childe
—High Thinking and Low Living
Old Man of the Mountain
Old South Rescue
Old Town Canoe
Oldham, Mad Jack
OLMSTEAD, FREDERICK LAW
—Finds a Wife
—Plans a Cemetery or 100
Orphan Train
Otis, James
Outermost House
P
Palatine, Ghost Ship
Palmer, Joseph
Parker Brothers
Parkman, Francis
Parrish, Maxfield
Parsons, Mary Bliss
Patten, Mary
Patriarca, Raymond
Paul, Moses
Peabody, Elizabeth
Peabody, Polly
Peabody, Sophia
Pear Tree, Endicott
Peck, Theodore Safford
Pemberton Mill Disaster
Pendleton Crew, Heroic Rescue of
Pennamite Wars
Penobscot Expedition
Pepperidge Farm
Pequot War Started
Perkins, Frances
Perkins Metallic Tractors
Perry, David
Perry, Lilla Cabot
Peyton Place
PHIPS, WILLIAM
—Death of
—Gets Tough on Witchcraft
—Goes to Sea
Pickwick Club Collapse
PIERCE, FRANKLIN
–Discovers Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Body
–Dorothea Dix and
–Tragedy and Triumph
Pierpont, James Lord
Pilgrim Airlines
Pink Flamingo, Plastic
PINKHAM, LYDIA
—Drinking Song About
—Sells Herbs and Booze
PIRATES
—Ashton, Philip
—Bellamy, Black Sam
—Dungeon Rock
—Fry, William
—Gibbs, Charles
—Kidd, William
—Pedro, Don
–Rhode Island Hangs 26
–Wall, Rachel
Plane Crash, Maine, 2 in One Day
Planters, 8,000 Move to Nova Scotia
Pledge of Allegiance
PLYMOUTH COLONY
—Alden, John
—Billington, John
–Clarke, John
–First Laws
–Great Migration of Picky Puritans—1620-40
—Hopkins, Stephen
—Massasoit
—Mayflower Love Children
—Mayflower Sailed
—Maypole That Infuriated the Puritans, The
—More, Richard
—Oldham, Mad Jack
—Sparrow Hawk, Wreck of
—Standish, Myles and Lost Colony
Plymouth Prepared for War
POE, EDGAR ALLAN
–Boston Harbor Legend
—Murderous Joseph Knapp
Point Judith, Battle of
Polio Debuts in Vermont
Pope Night
Pope and Pagan
Porter, Rufus
Portland Gale
Portland Head Light
Portsmouth Fires
Portuguese Immigrants, How They Came to New England
Potato, Fun Facts About
Potato War
Prang, Louis
Praying Indians of the American Revolution
Prisons, Revolutionary
PRIVATEERS
—Haraden, Jonathan
—Ingraham, Charles
—Kidd, William
—Liverpool Packet
—Sack of Lunenberg
Providence Tea Party
Provincetown, How It Got So Gay
Provincetown Dune Shacks
Puerto Rican Riots
PURITANS
—1640, More Left Colonies Than Arrived
—Arbella
—Ban Gambling and Other Things
–City Upon a Hill
—Cotton, John, Jr.
—Divorce
–Dress Code and the Outrage of Slashed Sleeves
—Easter
—Gay Injustice
—Good Puritan Mother
–Great Migration of Picky Puritans—1620-40
—Justice, New Haven
—Keayne, Robert
—Living Standards
—Maypole That Infuriated the Puritans, The
—Meetinghouse Stove
–Mincemeat Pie, Ban
—Moody, Lady Deborah
–Mother, How To Be a Good
–Names From the Biblical to the Bizarre
–Old Deluder Satan Act
—Provoking Evils and King Philip’s War
—Punishments: Way More Than the Scarlet Letter
–Rawson, Rebecca
–Sleeping in Church
—Tithingman
—Tuttles of New Haven
PUTNAM, ISRAEL
—Escape
PYNCHON, WILLIAM
–Takes Springfield
—Tweaks Puritans
—Writes Abenaki Names for Full Moon
Q
Quebec, Siege of
Queen Lill
Quincy, Dorothy
R
Rathom, John Revelstoke
Rawson, Rebecca
Ray, John Trumbull
Read, Ruth
Recount That Lasted 19 Months
Red Paint People of Maine
RED SOX
—1,345 Wins
—Back-to-Back Championships
—Baseball Eccentrics
—Cy Young
—Ernie Shore
–Happy Jack Chesbro
—Harry Hooper
—Home Run Derby
—Jimmy Fund
—Pumpsie Green Breaks Color Barrier
–Red Seat
—Royal Rooters
–Ruth Throws Piano
—Sunday Baseball, 1929
–Ted Williams, Latin-American
—Thunder Stolen by James Michael Curley
—Walt Dropo
—Wes and Rick Ferrell
Reddy the Blacksmith
Reed, Ethel
Reeducation Camp of WWII
Reeve, Tapping
Reliance
RESCUES
—Andrea Doria
—Lewis, Ida
—Nantucket, 1879
–Pendleton Crew (Finest Hours)
— Squalus: Greatest Submarine Rescue Ever, Part I
–Squalus, World Awaits News, Part II
—USS Bennington
Rettich, Carl
Returning to School
Reveillon
REVERE, PAUL
–Facts About His Ride
—First Forensic Dentist
—Midnight Ride in His Own Words
–Midnightish Rides, With Dawes and Prescott
—Penobscot Expedition
—Reenactment of Midnight Ride
—Ring Revere Bells
–Rode to New Hampshire
—Six Bells
Revolt of 1689
RHODE ISLAND
—Annapolis Moved to Newport
—Arnold, Benedict, and Quakers
–Awful Awful
—Brine, Salty
—Cranston, Samuel
—DeWolf, James
—Duke, Doris
—Forest Fires
—Gaspee Affair Part I
—Grant, Jehu
—Greene, Catherine
–Hangs 26 Pirates
–How To Talk
–Independence Day
—Little Annapolis
–Murphy, Lizzie
—Narragansett Beer
—Narragansett Pacer
—National Anthem
–Newport Cottages
—New York System Wiener
–Pilgrim Airlines
—Plymouth Rock
—Point Judith, Battle of
–Privateer Marlborough Attacks Slave Trade
–Prohibition
—Providence Tea Party
—Quahog
–Reeducation Camp of WWII
—Rettich, Carl
—Robinson, Hannah (Unfortunate)
—Slater Mill
–St. Ann’s
—St. Joseph’s Day
—USS Bennington
—Walsh, Danny
–Woonsocket Mill Order
Rhode Island’s Plymouth Rock
Rice Boys
Rides, Midnight
Riggin, Aileen
Riis, Jacob
RIOTS
–Boston Slave of 1854
–Female Food
–Hartford
–Marblehead, Against Smallpox
—New London Race
—Portland Rum
–Press Gang, Boston
–Puerto Rican
–Rock ‘n Roll, Boston
Ritz-Carlton
Riverman
Robbins, Thomas
Robert’s Rules of Order
ROBINSON, EDWARD ARLINGTON
—Creates Tilbury Town
Robinson, Hannah (Unfortunate)
Robinson, Harriet Hanson
ROBINSON, JACKIE
–Buys a House in Connecticut
—Rachel and
Rockport Motif No. 1
ROCKWELL, NORMAN
–Becomes Norman Rockwell
–Four Freedoms
–Stockbridge Steps into Painting
Rogers, Robert
Rolling Thunder Visits Kerouac’s Gravesite
ROOSEVELT, THEODORE
—Barnstorms New England
—Brahmin Rough Riders
—Harvard Classics
–Humiliates Dr. Seuss
—Nearly Gets Killed by Pittsfield Streetcar
Ropes, Hannah
Royal Tar
Royall, Anne
Rugg, Peter
Rules for Living From an Old New England Farmer
Rumphius, The Real Miss Decorates Maine With Lupines
RUTH, BABE
—Ends Career
—Gets All He Can
–Throws Piano
Ryan, Luke
S
Sacred Cod, Theft of
Saint Castin, Baron
Salem Chop Suey
Salem Town Meeting, 1774
SALTONSTALL, NORA
—Defies Dad
—Stays in the Fight
—Writes Home From the Western Front
SAMPSON, DEBORAH
–Massachusetts Revolutionary
–War Heroine in Disguise
Sanborn, Franklin
Sandwich Glass
SARGENT, JOHN SINGER
–Facts About
–Isabella Stewart Gardner and
—Paints Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
Saturday Evening Girls
Schill, Paul
Scottish POWs Sold as Slave Labor
Scrabble
Sea Serpents
Searles, Edward
Sedgwick, Edie
Seeley, Herbert Barnum
Seider, Christopher
Sewall, Jonathan Mitchell
SEWALL, SAMUEL
—Approves Persecution of Quakers
–Can’t Get a Date
—Dismayed by Christmas
–Survives Smallpox Epidemic
—Swears an Oath
–Takes Blame for Witchcraft Trials
Shaggs
SHAKERS
—Harvard
—Mother Ann’s Work
—Household Tips
—Sabbathday Lake
Shaw, William Smith
Sherburne, Henry
SHIPWRECKS
—Famine Ship St. John
—Fuller, Margaret
—Greenfield
—Hopkins, Stephen
—John Rutledge
—Nancy
—Portland Gale
—Sparrow Hawk
Sikorsky, Igor
Shuffleboard, Scourge of
SIX
–Abandoned Places
–Apple Orchards, Historic
–Barns
–Brutalist Buildings
—Cemeteries
–Churches by Ralph Adams Cram
–Coldest Temperatures
—College Pranks
–Cranberry Bogs
–Cursed Places
–Downtown Department Stores
–Famous Writers’ Houses
—Gentleman Farms
–Ghost Towns
—Gravesites of Military Heroes
–Highest Points
–Historic Stagecoach Stops
–Historic Train Rides
–Hollywood Stars Buried in New England
—Houses Associated with Wallace Nutting
–Iconic Paintings
–Indian Trails
–Indian Women
–Irish Landmarks
–Kettle Holes
–Longest Running Town Meetings
—Loyalist Houses
—Meetinghouses Based on St. Martin-in-the-Fields
–Mid-Century Modern Homes
–Movie Sets
–Mysterious Stone Structures
—Oldest Business
–Oldest General Stores
–Oldest Golf Clubs
–Oldest Houses in New England
—Oldest Libraries
–Oldest Public High School
–Oldest Restaurants
–One-Room Schoolhouses
—Paintings of New England Spring
–Paintings of New England Summer
–Places That Appear in Novels
–Places That Used To Belong to a Different State
—Places To Learn About Irish History
–Places Where a Gallows Once Stood
—Poorhouses
–Presidential Houses
–Prohibition Speakeasies
–Revolutionary Forts
–Revolutionary Military Routes
–Revolutionary Taverns
–Revolutionary War Battlefields
—Sears Houses
–Stops on the Underground Railroad
–Strange Rocks
–Summer White House
–Tallest Trees
–Wealthiest Towns and How They Got That Way
–Wealthy Enclaves and Their Scandals
St. Ann’s (Woonsocket)
St. Joseph’s Day
SKI HISTORY
—Berlin Millworkers Bring Ski Fever
—Early Days in New England
–Rope Tow
Skull and Bones, 7 Fast Facts About Yale’s Secret Society
Slater Mill
Slater, Sam
SLAVERY
–Beginning of End in Massachusetts
—Native-American Slavery in New England
—Slave Trade
Sleeping Sentinel
Small Bells of Connecticut
Smedley, Samuel
Smock Weddings
Snodgrass, Emma
Sockalexis, Louis
Solomon, King Charles
Somerset, James
Spanish Sheep Craze
Spencer, Percy
Spotted Elk, Molly
Sprague, Amasa
Sprague-Conkling Affair
SPRINGFIELD, MASS.
—Ames, Mary
—Basketball
—Durocher, Leo
—Erastus Salisbury Field
—Gun Valley
—Hampden Park
—Indian Motocycle
—Morgan, Miles
—Penny Postcard
—Portable House
—Pynchon, William
–Teddy Roosevelt Humiliates Dr. Seuss
Springsteen, Bruce
Squalus: Greatest Submarine Rescue Ever, Part I
St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Staines, Ona Judge
Standish, Myles and Lost Colony
STARK, JOHN
—Eureka Counterfeiting Ring
—Fortunate Son
–Runs Gauntlet His Way
State Capitals, 21
State Police, Massachusetts Abolishes
Steamboat City of Rockland
Stephenson, Isaac
Sterling, John William
Steuben, Baron von
Stevens, John Calvin
Stevens, Wallace
Stoddard, John
Stone Walls
STORMS
–Appalachian Storm of 1950
–Colonial Hurricane of 1635
–The Great Snow of 1717
–Great White Hurricane of 1888
–The Great 1938 Hurricane
–High Tide Storm of 1723
—Hurricane Carol, So Deadly Her Name Was Retired
—Miraculous Ride, 1938 Storm
—Portland Gale
–Remembering the 1978 Blizzard
–Snow Hurricane of 1804
–Valentine’s Day Storm of 1940
–Wallingford Tornado
–Worcester Tornado
STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER
—First Snowbird
—Starts Civil War
Stratford Knockings
STRIKES
–Bread and Roses
—Cabot Mill
—Dover Mill Girls
—Ipswich Mill Strike
—Lynn Shoemakers Strike
—New Haven Garment Workers
–Shoemakers of 1860
–Willilmantic
Stubby, Sergeant
Sullivan, Annie
SULLIVAN, JOHN
—Margery Brown and Owen O’Sullivan
—Margaret Brown, The Irish Mother of New England
—Sullivan Indian Expedition
—Too Busy Fighting the Revolution
—When John Adams Slept With Ben Franklin
Sullivan, John L.
Sullivan, Margaret
Sumner League
Sundown Towns, Secret History of
Surriage, Agnes
Swamp Yankee, How To Be
Swan, James
T
Taber, Gladys (Christmas in Connecticut)
Taft, Lydia Chapin
Tanguay, Eva
Tappan, Jolly Jane: The Killer Nurse Obsessed with Death
Tappan, Lewis
Tarbell, Ida
Tarbox, Mr. and Mrs.
Taunton Flag
TAVERNS
—Adams, Sam
—Aylett, John
–Eat Like a President
—Mowry Tavern
—Six Revolutionary
–Stories from Boston Taverns
—Quiz
Taxes, Fun Facts
Taylor, Major
Ten-Footer, Fun Facts About
Tenting Tonight
Terry, Eli
Texas Tower No. 4
THANKSGIVING
–Foods You Won’t Be Eating, Historic
–Four Women Who Cooked the First
—Franksgiving
–Italian Thanksgiving
–Mayflower Love Children
—Maine, Real First
–Over the River and Through the Woods
THAXTER, CELIA
–‘A Most Heavenly Night’
–‘Still and Heavenly’
THAYER, ABBOTT HANDERSON
—Angels of
—Bird Crazy Boy
—Massachusetts Camouflage School
Thompson, Benjamin (Count Rumford)
Thomson, Samuel
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID
—Breezy, Washing Day
—Fast Day, Baseball and
—Ford, Sophia and
—Pencil
—Studied Climate Change
–Wheeler-Thoreau Shanty, Discovery Acknowledged
–Wheeler-Thoreau Shanty, Discovery Likely
–Wheeler-Thoreau Shanty, Silver Discovered
–Wheeler-Thoreau Shanty, New Discovery
Throat Distemper
TISDALE, HENRY
—Dedham Grocer in Civil War
—Marches Into Battle
—Shot at Battle of South Mountain
Titanic, Murder on
Titicut Follies
Todd, Mabel Loomis
Todd, Thelma, Death of
Tong Wars
Top Secret Reeducation Camp in RI
Tory Den
Touro, Judah
TOWN MEETING
–Controversies, History of
—Six Oldest
Train, George Francis
TRAIN WRECKS
—Norwalk Train Disaster
—Tarriffville Disaster
—Worst in New Hampshire History
Tramps, Massachusetts a Paradise for
Trapp Family
Trinity University Medical School
Triple Deckers
Trumbull, John
Tucker, Ellen Louisa
Tudor, Frederic
Tungsten Light Bulb Scandal
Tupperware
Turtle, The (submarine)
Tuttles of New Haven
TWAIN, Mark
—Bombed
—Burglary
—Fantasy Menu
—Isabel Lyon and
—Josh Billings and
—Library
—Predicts New Deal
—Roasts Seven-Mule Barnum
Twilight, Alexander
Tyler, Royall
U
U-BOATS
–Attacks of World War II: Six Months of Secret Terror
—Attack on Cape Cod
–Rescues
–Surrender, Portsmouth
—Visit to Newport
Underhill, John, Gets Un-Banished
United Nations, Kicked Out By Greenwich
Unknown Soldier, Ladies of Gray, Maine, Bury
V
Vampires
Vanceboro Bridge, Bombing of
Veazey, Wheelock
VERMONT
—Buffalo Soldiers
—Civil War Soldier Longs To Go West
—Eugenics Survey
–How To Talk Like a Vermonter
–Kipling, Rudyard Feud
—Morgan, Justin
—Mount Independence
—Neshobe Island
—Polio Debuts in Vermont
—Queen Lill
—Raid on St. Albans
—Republicans Rig Election
–Sleeping Sentinel
—Spanish Sheep Craze
—Statehood
—Trapp Family
—Twilight, Alexander
–Veazey, Wheelock
VETERANS
—Cranky Civil War Veterans
—Nine Men’s Misery
—Revolutionary War, Christmas Dinner
–Revolutionary War, Reminisce and Get Photographed
Vineyarders, Deaf
Volcano That Promised Riches
Von Steuben, Baron
Vonnegut, Kurt
W
WADSWORTH, PELEG
—Discouraged in the Revolution
—Escapes the British
Walden Pond
Waldorf Lunch
Waldron, Richard
Walker, Quock
Wall, Rachel
Wallingford Shoebox Murder Mystery
Walsh, Danny
Walsh, David
WAMPANOAGS
—Epenow
—Gay Head
—Language
–Mashpee Nine
—Tisquantum
WARNER, SETH
—Battle of Bennington
—Rescued from Obscurity
WARREN, JOSEPH
—Dies A Martyr at Bunker Hill
—Patriot Who Would Have Overshadowed Washington
WASHINGTON, GEORGE
–Assembles Life Guards
—Rochambeau and
–Sat Here (Colonial Outhouses)
–Snubbed by Hancock
–Spy Ring
Waterbury Radium Girls
Watts, Alice
WEBSTER, DANIEL
—Advises Samuel Merritt To Go West
—Freed Slaves
—Goodridge, Eliljah
—Seventh of March
Webster, Mary: The Witch of Hadley Survives a Hanging
WEBSTER, NOAH
—Facts About
—Spelling Book
Webster, Noah
Weir, J. Alden
Weir, John Ferguson
Weld, Stephen Minot, Jr.
Wellfleet Oyster
Wentworth, Gov. John
Wentworth, Long John
West, Elizabeth Derby
Weston, Edward Payson
Wethersfield Red Onion
Whaling Disaster of 1871
WHAT THEY SAY IN NEW ENGLAND ABOUT
—Easter
—Local Characters
—Snow
–Signs of Spring
—Summer
Whistler’s Mother
Whitcher, Sarah
Whitefield, George
Whitman, Elizabeth
Whittemore, Samuel: Oldest, Craziest Revolutionary
Whoopie Pie Controversy
Willard, Emma
Williams, Eunice: The Unredeemed Captive
WILLIAMS, TED
—Jimmy Fund
–Latin-American
–Red Seat
Wilson, Harriet
Wilton Meetinghouse Collapse
Winant, John Gilbert, Tragic Love Affair
Windham Frog Fight
Winnipesaukee Water War
WINSLOW, ANNA GREEN
—Dines With King Hooper
—Listens to the Patriot Preacher
—Reports the Groaning Cake Is Made
—Visits a Newlywed
WINTHROP, JOHN
—Disrespects Isles of Shoals
—City on a Hill
Wiscasset Incident
WITCHES
–Candlemas Massacre and Salem Witch Trial
—Cole, Eunice
–Connecticut Hysteria Cover-Up
–Court of Oyer and Terminer
–Cranna, Hannah
–Martin, Susannah
—Parsons, Mary Bliss
–Salem Witch Trial Descendants
–Salem Still Raking It In
—Webster, Mary: The Witch of Hadley Survives a Hanging
—What Arthur Miller Got Right About the Salem Trials
–Witchcraft Trials: Not Just Salem
Women Suffragists Picket White House
Wonder Woman
Woodbury, Anna Lowell
Wooster, David
Working Girls Vacation Society
WORLD WAR II
–Bomber that Crashed in New Hampshire
—Cota, Norman: Overlooked Hero of D-Day and the Next
–German POW Camp
–Italians Declared Enemy Aliens
—Memorial Day
—O’Callahan, Joseph T.
—Point Judith, Battle of
–Reeducation Camp
—U-Boat Attacks of World War II: Six Months of Secret Terror
—U-Boat Surrender, Portsmouth
—Victory Gardens in WWII
Wormley, the Caterer
WYETH, ANDREW
–Christina’s World
X-Y-Z
XYZ Bank Robber
YALE
—African-American Medical Students
—Camp, Walter
—Devil and
—Insider’s Guide to the Colleges, 1972
—Skull and Bones, 7 Fast Facts About Yale’s Secret Society
—Stubby, Sergeant
Year Without a Summer, 1816
Yeaton, Hopley
Yellow Day
York Harbor Poison Pen Scandal, Part I
York Harbor Poison Pen Scandal, Part II
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