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New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. It is bordered by the state of New York to the west and by the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick to the northeast and Quebec to the north. The Gulf of Maine and Atlantic Ocean are to the east and southeast, and Long Island Sound is to the southwest. Boston is New England's largest city and the capital of Massachusetts. Greater Boston is the largest metropolitan area, with nearly a third of New England's population; this area includes Worcester, Massachusetts, the second-largest city in New England, Manchester, New Hampshire, the largest city in New Hampshire, and Providence, Rhode Island, the capital of and largest city in Rhode Island.

In 1620, the Pilgrims established Plymouth Colony, the second successful settlement in British America after the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, founded in 1607. Ten years later, Puritans established Massachusetts Bay Colony north of Plymouth Colony. Over the next 126 years, people in the region fought in four French and Indian Wars until the English colonists and their Iroquois allies defeated the French and their Algonquian allies. ( Full article...)

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Jennifer O'Neill in Summer of '42

Summer of '42 is a 1971 American coming-of-age drama film based on the memoirs of screenwriter Herman Raucher. It tells the story of how Raucher, in his early teens on his 1942 summer vacation on Nantucket Island, off the coast of New England, embarked on a one-sided romance with a woman, Dorothy, whose husband had gone off to fight in World War II.

The film was directed by Robert Mulligan, and starred Gary Grimes as Hermie, Jerry Houser as his best friend Oscy, Oliver Conant as their nerdy young friend Benjie, Jennifer O'Neill (pictured) as Hermie's mysterious love interest, and Katherine Allentuck and Christopher Norris as a pair of girls whom Hermie and Oscy attempt to seduce. Mulligan also has an uncredited role as the voice of the adult Hermie. ( Full article...)

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Bannister, c. 1880

Edward Mitchell Bannister (November 2, 1828 – January 9, 1901) was a Canadian–American oil painter of the American Barbizon school. Born in colonial New Brunswick, he spent his adult life in New England in the United States. There, along with his wife Christiana Carteaux, he was a prominent member of African-American cultural and political communities, such as the Boston abolition movement. Bannister received national recognition after he won a first prize in painting at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. He was also a founding member of the Providence Art Club and the Rhode Island School of Design.

Bannister's style and predominantly pastoral subject matter reflected his admiration for the French artist Jean-François Millet and the French Barbizon school. A lifelong sailor, he also looked to the Rhode Island seaside for inspiration. Bannister continually experimented, and his artwork displays his Idealist philosophy and his control of color and atmosphere. He began his professional practice as a photographer and portraitist before developing his better-known landscape style. ( Full article...) ( Full article...)

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Edgar Allan Poe

Credit: W.S. Hartshorn (1848)

Boston native Edgar Allan Poe, noted author, poet, editor, and critic

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Image 1 Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom is set on a fictional New England island and was largely filmed in Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 27. New Haven, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 3A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre (from New England)
Image 4A 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)
Image 58. Hartford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 6Ethnic origins in New England (from New England)
Image 7A classic New England Congregational church in Peacham, Vermont (from New England)
Image 8A New England town meeting in Huntington, Vermont (from New England)
Image 9 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (from New England)
Image 109. Cambridge, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 114. Springfield, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 12Flag of the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC) (from New England)
Image 136. Stamford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 14Classic New England Congregationalist church in Peacham, Vermont (from Culture of New England)
Image 1510. Manchester, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 16The 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 17First Boston Latin School house (from History of New England)
Image 18 Bread and Roses Strike. Massachusetts National Guard troops surround unarmed strikers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912. (from New England)
Image 19Southeastern New England is home to a number of Lusophone ethnic enclaves. (from New England)
Image 20New England regionalist poet Robert Frost (from New England)
Image 213. Providence, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 22New England is home to four of the eight Ivy League universities. Pictured here is Harvard Yard of Harvard University. (from New England)
Image 23Opera houses and theaters, like the Vergennes Opera House in Vergennes, Vermont, are popular in New England towns. (from Culture of New England)
Image 24The Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 25World's largest Irish flag in Boston. People who claim Irish descent constitute the largest ethnic ancestry in New England. (from New England)
Image 26 Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a high concentration of startups and technology companies. (from New England)
Image 27Certificate of the government of Massachusetts Bay acknowledging loan of £20 to state treasury 1777 (from History of New England)
Image 28 Flag of New England flying in Massachusetts. New Englanders maintain a strong sense of regional and cultural identity. (from New England)
Image 29 Montpelier, Vermont, is the smallest state capital in the United States. (from New England)
Image 30The Hartford headquarters of Aetna is housed in a 1931 Colonial Revival building. (from New England)
Image 311. Boston, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 32A plowed field in Bethel, Vermont (from New England)
Image 33Largest 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 342. Worcester, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 35Indigenous territories, circa 1600 in present-day southern New England (from New England)
Image 36Soldier and explorer John Smith coined the name "New England" in 1616. (from New England)
Image 37An illustration from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (from Culture of New England)
Image 38Autumn in New England, watercolor, Maurice Prendergast, c. 1910–1913 (from New England)
Image 39A portion of the north-central Pioneer Valley in Sunderland, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 40The White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of the Appalachian Mountains. (from New England)
Image 41 Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 42The New England Ensign, one of several flags historically associated with New England. This flag was reportedly used by colonial merchant ships sailing out of New England ports, 1686 – c. 1737. (from New England)
Image 43 Phillips Exeter Academy and Phillips Academy are two prestigious New England secondary schools founded in the late 18th century (from New England)
Image 44 Köppen climate types in New England (from New England)
Image 45 Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston and spent most of his literary career in Concord, Massachusetts. (from Culture of New England)
Image 46An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (from New England)
Image 475. Bridgeport, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 48A 1779 five-shilling note issued by Massachusetts (from History of New England)
Image 49Map of the British and French dominions in America in 1755, showing what the English considered New England (from History of New England)
Image 50The New Haven system (from History of New England)
Image 51Alumni Hall at Saint Anselm College has served as a backdrop for media reports during the New Hampshire primary. (from New England)
Image 52The Port of Portland in Portland, Maine, is the largest tonnage seaport in New England. (from New England)
Image 53 Boston's Symphony Hall is the home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra—the second-oldest of the Big Five American symphony orchestras. (from New England)
Image 54New England's Siege of Louisbourg (1745) by Peter Monamy (from New England)
Image 55A Hartford Line train at Hartford Union Station (from New England)

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... that the Chippewa have smoked the root of the New England aster in pipes to attract game?
... that the first railroad in New England was powered by horses?
... that Benjamin Tompson's poem "Harvardine Quils" called for writers in New England to memorialize the loss of "whole towns and Churches" in King Philip's War?
... that the first time the New England Revolution competed in an international competition, they played their "home" match at their opponent's stadium?
... that New England Revolution manager Bruce Arena led the club to a record-breaking 73 points in the 2021 season?
... that the tugboat R. B. Forbes was the first iron mercantile vessel built in New England?
... that Clayton Weishuhn set the New England Patriots single-season record of 229 tackles in 1983, a record that still stands?
... 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"?

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... that among Connecticut's contributions to the American Civil War are the Henry rifle and the song " Marching Through Georgia"?
... that The Cyclone at Revere Beach was the world's first roller coaster to reach 100 feet (30 m) in height?
... that American football star Albie Booth became famous after he scored all of Yale’s points in a 1929 upset win over Army?
... that Frye's Measure Mill is the only remaining water-powered measure mill in the United States after some 150 years of operations?
... that, in 2009, Anne Donahue was one of only five Republicans in the Vermont House of Representatives to vote in favor of a bill legalizing same-sex marriage in the state?

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Flag of Rhode Island

Rhode Island
Incorporated 1776
Co-ordinates 41.7°N 71.5°W

Rhode Island, officially the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is the smallest in area, the 8th least populous, but the 2nd most densely populated of the 50 U.S. states.

Rhode Island was the first of the original Thirteen Colonies to declare independence from British rule, declaring itself independent on May 4, 1776, two months before any other colony. The State was also the last of the thirteen original colonies to ratify the United States Constitution.

Rhode Island's official nickname is "The Ocean State," a reference to the State's geography, since Rhode Island has several large bays and inlets that amount to about fourteen (14) percent of its total area. Its land area is 1,045 square miles (2706 km²), but its total area is significantly larger. ( Full article...)

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