The following is an article from Uncle John's Curi... ...m Reader. Colonel John Ashley House, Sheffield, Massachusetts . (Image credit: Daderot)Eighty years before the E... ...mancipation Proclamation freed American slaves, a Massachusetts woman helped free the slaves of that state &helli... ...E WORDSIn 17...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/29/Betty-Freemans-Day-in-Court/
These motto stones are known as the Babson Boulder... ...ve words into the boulders around Dogtown Common, Massachusetts .The Babson Boulders date back to the 1930s, and m...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/08/08/Graphic-Design-History-Carved-Into-Stone/
Don't you dare swear in Middlebo... ...Don't you dare swear in Middleborough, Massachusetts ! The town got fed up with profanity and... ...The residents of Middleborough, Massachusetts , have had enough of this *#%@&!...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/13/20-fine-for-profanity/[YouTube clip] When money... ...iny library like the one in Shutesbury, Massachusetts to do? They fight back, of course, with...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/13/where-would-you-be-without-your-library/
For a generation, the famed Massachusetts Institute of Technology has secretly trained pira... .... Each paper, authorized by the "swashbucklin’" Massachusetts Institute of Technology, certifies that the named...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/05/mit-offers-certificates-in-piracy/
Calvinist preacher Roger Williams emigrated from E... ...n religion. They believed that the success of the Massachusetts plantation depended upon it. Williams believed... ...nship with God. A society built on the principles Massachusetts espoused would lead at best to hypocrisy, because...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/27/roger-williams-big-idea/
For 11 years, Mike Bowes has been working as a 911... ...11 dispatcher for the Quincy Police Department in Massachusetts . He's heard of everything from baby deliveries to...
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/30/911-dispatcher-got-call-that-own-house-was-on-fire/
You know all about student pranks – greased pigs... ...s over at the Museum of Hoaxes - the theft of the Massachusetts Sacred Cod. Yes, Massachusetts has a sacred cod, and they really refer to it as... ...ce to the House of Representatives chamber in the Massachusetts Stat...
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/16/seven-college-pranks/
Photo: Bree Bailey [Flickr]We've had our share of... ...But misspelling the name of this lake in Webster, Massachusetts ? Why, it's inconceivable how anyone couldn't spel... ...orrectly:In an embarrassing mistake, officials in Massachusetts have been forced to admit that some road signs po...
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/21/inconceivable-how-could-anyone-misspell-that/
