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Podcast 298 – A Selfie with Newport’s Little Maggie

Maggie Little lived her 91 years wandering northern Vermont looking for adventures and becoming the most photographed person at Lake […]

In the late 18th century, Lord Timothy Dexter of Newburyport, Massachusetts, made a serious of business blunders that should have

On July 6, 1944 a circus fire in Hartford, Connecticut, claimed 167 lives and launched a 50-year mystery trying to

In the late 1800s, a priest from Woonsocket, Rhode Island, used a beast from hell to build his church. When

In 1866, Rev. Adams and 156 followers sailed out of Jonesport, Maine, toward modern-day Israel intent on building a settlement

In 1897, Joseph Kelley was accused of murder and bank robbery. In court, Kelley claimed he was under contract with

In 1865, a giant bullfrog was discovered over 100 feet below the surface in a Brandon, Vermont, mine shaft. The

In 1873, Hiram Smith was entombed in a boulder carved by masons in the 1860s–they say Hiram wanted an above-ground