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New England is a region consisting of 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, comprising the Boston–Worcester–Providence Combined Statistical Area, houses more than half 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...)
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...)
Credit: William Brasier (1759)
The following are images from various New England-related articles on Wikipedia.
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Image 1The Hartford headquarters of Aetna is housed in a 1931 Colonial Revival building. (from New England)
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Image 2Largest 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)
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Image 3Ethnic origins in New England (from New England)
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Image 4Flag of New England flying in Massachusetts. New Englanders maintain a strong sense of regional and cultural identity. (from New England)
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Image 6Flag of the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC) (from New England)
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Image 8Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston and spent most of his literary career in Concord, Massachusetts. (from Culture of New England)
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Image 9Classic New England Congregationalist church in Peacham, Vermont (from Culture of New England)
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Image 12A 1779 five-shilling note issued by Massachusetts (from History of New England)
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Image 13Autumn in New England, watercolor, Maurice Prendergast, c. 1910–1913 (from New England)
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Image 19The 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)
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Image 21Soldier and explorer John Smith coined the name "New England" in 1616. (from New England)
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Image 22A 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)
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Image 23Certificate of the government of Massachusetts Bay acknowledging loan of £20 to state treasury 1777 (from History of New England)
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Image 24Alumni Hall at Saint Anselm College has served as a backdrop for media reports during the New Hampshire primary. (from New England)
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Image 26The White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of the Appalachian Mountains. (from New England)
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Image 27New England is home to four of the eight Ivy League universities. Pictured here is Harvard Yard of Harvard University. (from New England)
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Image 30Opera houses and theaters, like the Vergennes Opera House in Vergennes, Vermont, are popular in New England towns. (from Culture of New England)
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Image 33Boston's Symphony Hall is the home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra—the second-oldest of the Big Five American symphony orchestras. (from New England)
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Image 35Map of the British and French dominions in America in 1755, showing what the English considered New England (from History of New England)
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Image 36The New Haven system (from History of New England)
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Image 37The Port of Portland in Portland, Maine, is the largest tonnage seaport in New England. (from New England)
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Image 38Indigenous territories, circa 1600 in present-day southern New England (from New England)
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Image 39A portion of the north-central Pioneer Valley in Sunderland, Massachusetts (from New England)
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Image 43Southeastern New England is home to a number of Lusophone ethnic enclaves. (from New England)
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Image 44A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre (from New England)
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Image 45World's largest Irish flag in Boston. People who claim Irish descent constitute the largest ethnic ancestry in New England. (from New England)
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Image 46An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (from New England)
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Image 47A plowed field in Bethel, Vermont (from New England)
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Image 48The 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)
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Image 49Phillips Exeter Academy and Phillips Academy at Andover are two prestigious New England secondary schools founded in the late 18th century (from New England)
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Image 51Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom is set on a fictional New England island and was largely filmed in Rhode Island (from New England)
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Image 52Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a high concentration of startups and technology companies. (from New England)
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Image 54Köppen climate types in New England (from New England)
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- ... that the house (pictured) in Danbury, Connecticut, where Charles Ives was born has been moved twice to allow local banks to expand their buildings?
- ... that descendants of Wigglesworth Dole included a missionary to Hawaii, a governor of Hawaii, an attorney general of Hawaii, and a "pineapple king"?
- ... that during their first football game against Yale in 1884, the Dartmouth Big Green were routed, 113–0?
- ... that until 1950, only descendants of Massachusetts Bay or Plymouth colonists could become members of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts?
- ... that Michael Roach, an American professional soccer player, played in college with future teammates Kevin Alston and Alec Purdie?
New Hampshire Incorporated 1776 Co-ordinates 44°N 71.5°W New Hampshire, named after the southern English county of Hampshire, is the 5th least extensive and the 9th least populous of the 50 U.S. states.
It became the first post-colonial sovereign nation in the Americas when it broke off from Great Britain in January 1776, and six months later was one of the original thirteen states that founded the United States of America. In June 1788, it became the ninth state to ratify the United States Constitution, bringing that document into effect. New Hampshire was the first U.S. state to have its own state constitution.
It is known internationally for the New Hampshire primary, the first primary in the U.S. presidential election cycle. Concord is the state capital, while Manchester is the largest city in the state. It has no general sales tax, nor is personal income (other than interest and dividends) taxed at either the state or local level. (Full article...)
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