Hogs and women were once banned on the Isles of Shoals. Janice Brown of Cow Hampshire explains what happened when John Reynolds brought his wife and "a great stock of goats and swine" to Hog Island (now Appledore) in 1647. Only his wife was allowed to stay.Reynolds wasn't the first to bring a woman to the islands, as John Scribner Jenness notes in his The Isles of Shoals: An Historical Sketch, and the majority of islanders approved of the presence of women.[T]he married men of the Islands, when this obsolete law had been brought to notice, were...
Tuesday, 17 June 2008
Sunday, 8 June 2008
Was French diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord—popularly known as "Talleyrand"—born in Maine? Edward Robbins, a former Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, thought so.When Talleyrand was in Boston, in 1794, he was introduced to Mr. Robbins, and they became quite intimate. A few weeks subsequent to their acquaintance, Mr. Robbins was called on business to Mount Desert, in Maine, where, to his surprise, he found Talleyrand, incog., and...
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