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Jul 3

The Horses Behaved Better Than Many People: Taunton’s Fourth of July

By Eric B. Schultz By July 4th, 1900, America’s most patriotic holiday had become its most lethal. In Taunton, Samuel Goodwin of Lawrence Street lost his third finger to a cannon cracker. Patrick Goldrick lost his thumb to another. …

Fourth Of July

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The Horses Behaved Better Than Many People: Taunton’s Fourth of July
The Horses Behaved Better Than Many People: Taunton’s Fourth of July
Fourth Of July

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Jun 1

We Talk With an AI Historian About the Old Colony

Eric B. Schultz This post may be the strangest we’ve ever written. It may also be the shape of things to come. While the mission of the Old Colony History Museum is to collect, preserve and exhibit history, that doesn’t mean we’re not also about looking ahead. With that in…

AI

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We Talk With an AI Historian About the Old Colony
We Talk With an AI Historian About the Old Colony
AI

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May 2

Fire and Ice: Some Calamities of the Old Colony (Part III: Hurricane Carol, the Great Hurricane of 1938, the Gale of 1815, and the Colonial Gale of 1638)

Eric B. Schultz In part I of this series, we described some of the Old Colony’s most destructive fires, and in part II, some of the region’s heaviest snowstorms. Our third and final segment looks at the Old Colony’s long, calamitous history of surviving what’s blowin’ in the wind. On the…

Hurricane

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Fire and Ice: Some Calamities of the Old Colony (Part III: Hurricane Carol, the Great Hurricane of…
Fire and Ice: Some Calamities of the Old Colony (Part III: Hurricane Carol, the Great Hurricane of…
Hurricane

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Mar 1

Fire and Ice: Some Calamities of the Old Colony (part II)

Eric B. Schultz In part I of this post, we described some of the Old Colony’s most devastating fires, including the Granite Mill Blaze in Fall River (1874), the Grover Shoe Factory Disaster (1905) and the Strand Theatre Fire (1941) in Brockton, and the Myles Standish Forest Fire (1964). We…

Weather

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Fire and Ice: Some Calamities of the Old Colony (part II)
Fire and Ice: Some Calamities of the Old Colony (part II)
Weather

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Jan 2

Fire and Ice: Some Calamities of the Old Colony

Eric B. Schultz Some say the world will end in fire. Some say in ice. Some, like the residents of Taunton in 1886, may have thought their world would be swept away in a great flood. (See our blog post about “The Great Flood of 1886.”). Readers old enough to…

Disaster

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Fire and Ice: Some Calamities of the Old Colony
Fire and Ice: Some Calamities of the Old Colony
Disaster

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Dec 5, 2022

Charles Monroe Baker, Taunton’s “Architect of Big Buildings”

Eric B. Schultz In 1864, Timothy Crowell Baker (1838–1925) arrived in the newly-minted city of Taunton, seeking work as a tinsmith. It was a good time and place for his occupation, as the Taunton stove industry was flourishing. …

Architecture

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Charles Monroe Baker, Taunton’s “Architect of Big Buildings”
Charles Monroe Baker, Taunton’s “Architect of Big Buildings”
Architecture

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Oct 3, 2022

Loves Me Like a Rock: Eight Old Colony Hunks You Should Know

Eric B. Schultz “Remember the Maine, Plymouth Rock and the Golden Rule!” –”Ya Got Trouble” from The Music Man There’s something about rocks. Search the web for “famous rocks” and you’ll discover everything from the Rosetta Stone to Ireland’s Blarney Stone. …

History

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Loves Me Like a Rock: Eight Old Colony Hunks You Should Know
Loves Me Like a Rock: Eight Old Colony Hunks You Should Know
History

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Sep 1, 2022

A “Generation of Vipers”: The Taunton Trials of Thomas Coram

By Katie MacDonald and William F. Hanna In compiling material for our upcoming book, Tetiquet to the Sea: A History of the Taunton River, we have found a boatload of fascinating characters. Rivers seem to attract entertaining people with interesting stories, and one of our favorites is Thomas Coram. Born in Lyme-Regis, on the south coast of…

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A “Generation of Vipers”: The Taunton Trials of Thomas Coram
A “Generation of Vipers”: The Taunton Trials of Thomas Coram

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Aug 1, 2022

The Authors of the Old Colony: A Summer Reading List (If You Dare)

By Eric B. Schultz The Old Colony stretches from Rehoboth to Provincetown and from Scituate to Dartmouth. It is the historic home of New Bedford’s whaling fleet and Fall River’s textile factories, the Ames brothers’ shovels and Reed & Barton’s silver. Its soldiers and political leaders range from Myles Standish and Robert Treat Paine to Major General Darius Nash Couch and the brave WWII American GIs buried at the Normandy American Cemetery.

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The Authors of the Old Colony: A Summer Reading List (If You Dare)
The Authors of the Old Colony: A Summer Reading List (If You Dare)

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Jul 5, 2022

The Golden Age of Radio in the Old Colony (Three Acts)

By Eric B. Schultz Act One: An Old Colony First December 1906. A 420-foot tubular steel antenna rises from Brandt Rock, a snowy, desolate spot along the Atlantic coast in Marshfield some 40 miles northeast of Taunton and 20 miles from where the Mayflower landed. Under the direction of radio pioneer Reginald Fessenden, this monstrous tower is sending and receiving…

Radio History

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The Golden Age of Radio in the Old Colony (Three Acts)
The Golden Age of Radio in the Old Colony (Three Acts)
Radio History

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