The Von Trapp Chapel
📍Stowe, Vermont
The Von Trapp Chapel is a small, humble stone chapel nestled in the wooded hills of the Von Trapp Family Lodge & Resort. Built by Werner von Trapp (one of the sons from the family that inspired The Sound of Music) after World War II as a vow of thanksgiving for his safe return from combat with the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division, it was constructed over several years in the late 1940s by hauling local stones up the hillside. The simple structure, with its stone walls and wooden interior, serves as a quiet place for reflection and prayer, accessible via a short but steep hike from the lodge, and reflects the family’s Austrian Catholic heritage amid the scenic Green Mountains.
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📍Stowe, Vermont
The Von Trapp Chapel is a small, humble stone chapel nestled in the wooded hills of the Von Trapp Family Lodge & Resort. Built by Werner von Trapp (one of the sons from the family that inspired The Sound of Music) after World War II as a vow of thanksgiving for his safe return from combat with the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division, it was constructed over several years in the late 1940s by hauling local stones up the hillside. The simple structure, with its stone walls and wooden interior, serves as a quiet place for reflection and prayer, accessible via a short but steep hike from the lodge, and reflects the family’s Austrian Catholic heritage amid the scenic Green Mountains.
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Captain John Parker
(b.1729–d.1775)
📍Lexington, Massachusetts
Captian Parker was a prominent Massachusetts militia officer and commander of the Lexington Minutemen at the start of the American Revolution.
On the morning of April 19, 1775, he led roughly 70–77 militiamen onto Lexington Common to confront a force of about 700–800 advancing British regulars. Greatly outnumbered, Parker ordered his men to stand their ground. The ensuing skirmish marked the opening clash of the Revolution.
Though wounded in the fighting, Parker continued to help organize local militia resistance and took part in the pursuit of the British as they retreated from Concord.
Parker died of tuberculosis at the age of 46.
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(b.1729–d.1775)
📍Lexington, Massachusetts
Captian Parker was a prominent Massachusetts militia officer and commander of the Lexington Minutemen at the start of the American Revolution.
On the morning of April 19, 1775, he led roughly 70–77 militiamen onto Lexington Common to confront a force of about 700–800 advancing British regulars. Greatly outnumbered, Parker ordered his men to stand their ground. The ensuing skirmish marked the opening clash of the Revolution.
Though wounded in the fighting, Parker continued to help organize local militia resistance and took part in the pursuit of the British as they retreated from Concord.
Parker died of tuberculosis at the age of 46.
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Boston, MA 1974
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The nor’easter lashing Nantucket with wind and rain this weekend has uncovered the remains of a shipwreck along the island’s south shore.
The fragment is likely from the 19th century schooner Warren Sawyer, a wooden ship that wrecked near Miacomet Beach on December 22, 1884.
Nantucket Current
The fragment is likely from the 19th century schooner Warren Sawyer, a wooden ship that wrecked near Miacomet Beach on December 22, 1884.
Nantucket Current
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Reporters Quiz Joe McCarthy
(c. November 18, 1953)
Boston Federal Building
📍Boston, Massachusetts
After closed door hearings at the Boston Federal Building, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy talks to the press about subversive activities at the General Electric Company.
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(c. November 18, 1953)
Boston Federal Building
📍Boston, Massachusetts
After closed door hearings at the Boston Federal Building, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy talks to the press about subversive activities at the General Electric Company.
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Run-away Slave Ad
Newport Mercury Newspaper
(c. October 26, 1762)
📍Newport, Rhode Island
"an Indian Servant Woman, named Eunice, very fat and lusty."
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Newport Mercury Newspaper
(c. October 26, 1762)
📍Newport, Rhode Island
"an Indian Servant Woman, named Eunice, very fat and lusty."
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“When the hordes of other lands are permitted to come here, as is the case daily; when ignorance, poverty, crime is allowed to land upon our shores and be transformed, hardly without ceremony, and with no time to learn the nature of our institutions, into what is called the ‘American’ citizens—when these things are done, it is time that good men lifted their arms and sounded their voices against the abomination.”
Preserve New England
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Preserve New England
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Memorial Arch of Tilton
📍Northfield, New Hampshire
The Memorial was supposed to be a giant tombstone for Charles Tilton. Alas, things did not work out that way, and now it’s just a monument, with Tilton being buried nearby in a humble cemetery.
Charles Tilton got rich during the California Gold Rush. When he returned to his hometown of Sanbornton Bridge, NH, he invested heavily in it. So much so in fact, that the residents named the town after him.
Inspired by the Arch of Titus in Rome, Tilton had his own arch built in the early 1880s on a large hill with one of the best views in the area. He planned on being interred in the large, lion-topped, pink-granite sarcophagus between the two columns at its base. He also planned on Northfield, the adjoining town where the hill was actually located, being incorporated into Tilton. However, when Northfield eventually refused, Tilton forsook his finished monument and was buried in Park Cemetery off West Main Street in his beloved Tilton.
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📍Northfield, New Hampshire
The Memorial was supposed to be a giant tombstone for Charles Tilton. Alas, things did not work out that way, and now it’s just a monument, with Tilton being buried nearby in a humble cemetery.
Charles Tilton got rich during the California Gold Rush. When he returned to his hometown of Sanbornton Bridge, NH, he invested heavily in it. So much so in fact, that the residents named the town after him.
Inspired by the Arch of Titus in Rome, Tilton had his own arch built in the early 1880s on a large hill with one of the best views in the area. He planned on being interred in the large, lion-topped, pink-granite sarcophagus between the two columns at its base. He also planned on Northfield, the adjoining town where the hill was actually located, being incorporated into Tilton. However, when Northfield eventually refused, Tilton forsook his finished monument and was buried in Park Cemetery off West Main Street in his beloved Tilton.
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Hartford's First Jew
"David the Jew"
The first Jew on record living in Hartford was named, appropriately enough, “David” – “David The Jew,” to be more precise. David was resident in 1659 – perhaps for a short time only – for, in that same year, he was arrested and fined 20 shillings by the Court of Assistants for “illegal peddling” – meaning he was selling to women and children when the “man of the house” was not at the homestead.
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"David the Jew"
The first Jew on record living in Hartford was named, appropriately enough, “David” – “David The Jew,” to be more precise. David was resident in 1659 – perhaps for a short time only – for, in that same year, he was arrested and fined 20 shillings by the Court of Assistants for “illegal peddling” – meaning he was selling to women and children when the “man of the house” was not at the homestead.
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