It happened in Massachusetts
By: by Larry B. Pletcher ; with contributions from Daniel Spinella.
Contributors: Spinella, Daniel.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Guilford, Conn
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780762748990
Subjects: Massachusetts -- History -- Anecdotes
Genres: Anecdotes.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The survival of New Plymouth, 1623; title: King Philip's War, 1675; title: The Salem witch trials, 1692; title: The Deerfield Massacre, 1704; title: The Boston Tea Party, 1773; title: The midnight ride of Paul Revere, 1775; title: The secret war of Robert Shurtleff, 1783; title: Shays' Rebellion, 1786; title: The saviors of Scituate, 1814; title: The leviathan's revenge, 1819; title: The experiment at Walden Pond, 1845; title: The trial of Anthony Burns, 1854; title: Celestial shoemakers, 1870; title: The great fire, 1872; title: Inventing a speech machine, 1875; title: The blizzard of '88, 1888; title: The birth of a winter game, 1891; title: Lizzie Borden, 1892; title: The wreck of the Wadena, 1902; title: The Battle of Orleans, 1918; title: The great molasses flood, 1919; title: The Boston police strike, 1919; title: The curse of the Bambino, 1920; title: The death of the Swift River Valley, 1927; title: The execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, 1927; title: Building a Berkshire shed, 1938; title: The microwave revolution, 1945; title: The Cocoanut Grove fire, 1942; title: The Brinks job, 1950; title: A special birthday salute, 1976; title: Johnny Kelley's sixtieth Boston marathon, 1991; title: Baseball's Garden of Eden, 2004; title: Massachusetts facts and trivia.