New England Travels

Visits to City and Seacoast, Farm and Factory, Mountains and Valleys. And Miles to Go Before I Sleep.

Friday, February 29, 2008

Deerfield Massacre - 1704

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On Leap Day in 1704, the Abenaki Indians attacked the settlement of Deerfield on the Massachusetts frontier, killing over 50 colonists, taki...
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Alcott on Thoreau

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This stream pictured above is not the Concord River. It’s located in Gilbertville in the central part of Massachusetts. I don’t think Hen...
Friday, February 22, 2008

Powers' Sculpture of George Washington

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Having celebrated Lincoln’s birthday last week with views of statues of Lincoln created by New England sculptor Daniel Chester French, we ce...
Tuesday, February 19, 2008

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum

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With Presidents Day just yesterday, we note the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is the only one of the 12 Presidential libra...
Friday, February 15, 2008

Sugaring Off Time - Maple Syrup

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See this maple tree with the metal buckets hanging off it? This is where your maple syrup comes from. Not all of it, just some of it. The...
Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Lincoln Statues by Daniel Chester French

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The photo above of a statue of Abraham Lincoln is a model for famed sculptor Daniel Chester French’s other Lincoln sculpture. His more famo...
Friday, February 8, 2008

Lowell's Mills

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This is the Boott Cotton Mill in Lowell, Massachusetts where thousands of workers, mostly women, worked from the early 1800s at the dawn of ...
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