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New England S Mad Mysterious Men

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Author : Robert Ellis Cahill
language : en
Publisher: Old Saltbox
Release Date : 1990

New England S Mad Mysterious Men written by Robert Ellis Cahill and has been published by Old Saltbox this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

You've never met such wonderful nor wacky men as you'll be introduced to in this book. Mad Dog McGovern who was a coward, but during the last moments of his life became one of the greatest heroes who ever lived; Mike Martin, the greatest and most humorous highwayman of all time; Timothy Dexter, who insisted on watching his own funeral and struck his wife when she didn't cry - plus many more true stories of fascinating men, including Johnny Appleseed and Paul Bunyan.

New England S Cruel And Unusual Punishments

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Author : Robert Ellis Cahill
language : en
Publisher: Old Saltbox
Release Date : 1994

New England S Cruel And Unusual Punishments written by Robert Ellis Cahill and has been published by Old Saltbox this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.

"People were burned at the stake in New England, and whipping was a common punishment. Hangings were gala affairs where food and drink was served, and pelting a neighbor who sat in the stocks with rocks and filth from the street was a weekly form of recreation. There were strict rules and regulations for all 17th and 18th centruy Pilgrims and Puritans -- and to break a rule might mean death. Yet, children, women and anyone of a different religion were treated quite cruelly, whether they broke the rules or not. Almost every New England family owned at least one black (and sometimes one white) slave prior to the Revolution, and the slave's fate was at the whim of his or her master. This book reveals some old and well-kept secrets that will surprise you."

Strange New England

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Author : Thomas D'Agostino and Arlene Nicholson
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2021

Strange New England written by Thomas D'Agostino and Arlene Nicholson and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with History categories.

New England boasts some of the strangest characters and stories that ever graced a region. From ghosts blessing a marriage to a clairvoyant who raised the dead, mysterious happenings abound. There is the simple grave of the mysterious and anonymous "XYZ" and the extravagant monument built for a pauper. One man may have actually found the elixir of immortality, while another woman left her whole fortune to a spirit she met via a Ouija board. Stories of the Melon Heads, the Leather Man and the Old Coot of Mount Greylock have fascinated New Englanders for years. Join Tom D'Agostino and Arlene Nicholson as they unveil the mysteries and oddities of this unique region.

Strange Beliefs Customs Superstitions Of New England

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Author : Leo Bonfanti
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006

Strange Beliefs Customs Superstitions Of New England written by Leo Bonfanti and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Folklore categories.

The Legend Of Spring Heeled Jack

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Author : Karl Bell
language : en
Publisher: Boydell Press
Release Date : 2012

The Legend Of Spring Heeled Jack written by Karl Bell and has been published by Boydell Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.

An intriguing study of a unique and unsettling cultural phenomenon in Victorian England. WINNER of the 2013 Katharine Briggs Award NEW LOWER PRICE This book uses the nineteenth-century legend of Spring-Heeled Jack to analyse and challenge current notions of Victorian popular cultures. Starting as oral rumours, this supposedly supernatural entity moved from rural folklore to metropolitan press sensation, co-existing in literary and theatrical forms before finally degenerating into a nursery lore bogeyman to frighten children. A mercurial and unfixed cultural phenomenon, Spring-Heeled Jack found purchase in both older folkloric traditions and emerging forms of entertainment. Through this intriguing study of a unique and unsettling figure, Karl Bell complicates our appreciation of the differences, interactions and similarities between various types of popular culture between 1837 and 1904. The book draws upon a rich variety of primary source material including folklorist accounts, street ballads, several series of "penny dreadful" stories (and illustrations), journals, magazines, newspapers, comics, court accounts, autobiographies and published reminiscences. The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack is impressively researched social history and provides a fascinating insight into Victorian cultures. It will appeal to anyone with an interest in nineteenth-century English social and cultural history, folklore or literature. Karl Bell is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Portsmouth.

New England S Ghostly Haunts

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Author : Robert Ellis Cahill
language : en
Publisher: Old Saltbox
Release Date : 1982

New England S Ghostly Haunts written by Robert Ellis Cahill and has been published by Old Saltbox this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with History categories.

The best seller in the series. Real hauntings experienced by the author and his friends, including the story of America's first ghost, who was seen by hundreds of people in Maine. There is a chapter on New Hampshire's "Good Ghosts", and another on "Where to go ghost hunting." Do not read at night!

Lord Strange S Men And Their Plays

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Author : Lawrence Manley
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2014-05-28

Lord Strange S Men And Their Plays written by Lawrence Manley and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-28 with History categories.

For a brief period in the late Elizabethan Era an innovative company of players dominated the London stage. A fellowship of dedicated thespians, Lord Strange’s Men established their reputation by concentrating on “modern matter” performed in a spectacular style, exploring new modes of impersonation, and deliberately courting controversy. Supported by their equally controversial patron, theater connoisseur and potential claimant to the English throne Ferdinando Stanley, the company included Edward Alleyn, considered the greatest actor of the age, as well as George Bryan, Thomas Pope, Augustine Phillips, William Kemp, and John Hemings, who later joined William Shakespeare and Richard Burbage in the Lord Chamberlain’s Men. Though their theatrical reign was relatively short lived, Lord Strange’s Men helped to define the dramaturgy of the period, performing the plays of Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd, and others with their own distinctive flourish. Lawrence Manley and Sally-Beth MacLean offer the first complete account of the troupe and its enormous influence on Elizabethan theater. Seamlessly blending theater history and literary criticism, the authors paint a lively portrait of a unique community of performing artists, their intellectual ambitions and theatrical innovations, their business practices, and their fearless engagements with the politics and religion of their time.