Bibliograph

It happened in Massachusetts, by Larry B. Pletcher ; with contributions from Daniel Spinella

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It happened in Massachusetts, by Larry B. Pletcher ; with contributions from Daniel Spinella

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

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maps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

It happened in Massachusetts

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

213838982

Responsibility statement

by Larry B. Pletcher ; with contributions from Daniel Spinella

Table Of Contents

The survival of New Plymouth, 1623 -- King Philip's War, 1675 -- The Salem witch trials, 1692 -- The Deerfield Massacre, 1704 -- The Boston Tea Party, 1773 -- The midnight ride of Paul Revere, 1775 -- The secret war of Robert Shurtleff, 1783 -- Shays' Rebellion, 1786 -- The saviors of Scituate, 1814 -- The leviathan's revenge, 1819 -- The experiment at Walden Pond, 1845 -- The trial of Anthony Burns, 1854 -- Celestial shoemakers, 1870 -- The great fire, 1872 -- Inventing a speech machine, 1875 -- The blizzard of '88, 1888 -- The birth of a winter game, 1891 -- Lizzie Borden, 1892 -- The wreck of the Wadena, 1902 -- The Battle of Orleans, 1918 -- The great molasses flood, 1919 -- The Boston police strike, 1919 -- The curse of the Bambino, 1920 -- The death of the Swift River Valley, 1927 -- The execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, 1927 -- Building a Berkshire shed, 1938 -- The microwave revolution, 1945 -- The Cocoanut Grove fire, 1942 -- The Brinks job, 1950 -- A special birthday salute, 1976 -- Johnny Kelley's sixtieth Boston marathon, 1991 -- Baseball's Garden of Eden, 2004 -- Massachusetts facts and trivia

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