The 21st Massachusetts was part of
Ferrero's Brigade, which captured the infamous Burnside's Bridge during the
Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. was a
Massachusetts-born physician, poet, professor, lecturer, and author. Regarded by his peers as one of the best writers of the 19th century, he is considered a member of the
Fireside Poets. His most famous prose works are the "Breakfast-Table" series, which began with The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858). He is also recognized as an important medical reformer. Surrounded by
Boston's literary elite—which included friends such as
Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and
James Russell Lowell—Holmes made an indelible imprint on the literary world of the 19th century. Many of his works were published in The Atlantic Monthly, a magazine that he named. For his literary achievements and other accomplishments, he was awarded numerous honorary degrees from universities around the world. Holmes's writing often commemorated his native Boston area, and much of it was meant to be humorous or conversational. (Full article...)
Image 5New England is home to four of the eight
Ivy League universities. Pictured here is
Harvard Yard of Harvard University. (from New England)
Image 6The
MBTA Commuter Rail serves eastern Massachusetts and parts of Rhode Island, radiating from downtown Boston, with planned service to New Hampshire. The CTrail system operates the
Shore Line East and
Hartford Line, covering coastal Connecticut, Hartford, and Springfield, Massachusetts. (from New England)
Image 20Largest self-reported ancestry groups in New England. Americans of Irish descent form a plurality in most of Massachusetts, while Americans of English descent form a plurality in much of the central parts of Vermont and New Hampshire as well as nearly all of Maine. (from New England)
Image 21Indigenous territories, circa 1600 in present-day southern New England (from New England)
Image 48A political and geographical map of New England shows the
coastal plains in the southeast, and hills, mountains and valleys in the west and the north. (from New England)
... that the tugboat R. B. Forbes was the first iron mercantile vessel built in New England?
... that Cora Agnes Benneson, one of the first female lawyers in New England, was rejected by
Harvard Law School because "the equipments were too limited to make suitable provision for receiving women"?
... that
Maine author C. J. Stevens amazed many of his readers by revealing that
gold nuggets can be found by panning certain rivers?
... that although he was expelled by the
Jesuit order for supporting the
ordination of women, William R. Callahan insisted he was just "following the example of Jesus, who was never willing to shut up"?
... that because a car crashed through his store's window, Steve Bernard'sCape Cod Potato Chips company survived a difficult winter, after which business boomed?
Maine is both the northernmost and easternmost portion of New England. It is known for its scenery—its jagged, mostly rocky coastline, its low, rolling mountains, its heavily forested interior and picturesque waterways—as well as for its seafood cuisine, especially
lobsters and
clams.
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