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TODAY: It’s NEW ENGLAND WEEK, with your host @lukeoneil47.bsky.social. First: @milesklee.bsky.social goes back to Western Mass. “I didn’t bother with an apple cider donut this time. Would it ever taste the way it did at the top of Mount Greylock twenty years ago?” flaminghydra.com/behind-the-e...

flaminghydra.comBehind the Eight BallNew Hampshire is New England, yet New York and New Jersey, both (re)named under British rule, are not New England—perhaps owing to their earlier Dutch colonial identities. If it’s not in the name, wha...

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ALSO TODAY: @raxkingisdead.bsky.social on Shirley Jackson suffocating as a faculty wife at Bennington. “Locals whispered about her and her family—even the trash collector gossiped about how many liquor bottles he collected from their house.” flaminghydra.com/the-friends-...

flaminghydra.comThe Friends of Shirley JacksonShirley Jackson was delighted and relieved when her husband, the literary critic Stanley Edgar Hyman, accepted a teaching job at Bennington College in Vermont in 1945. According to her biographer Ruth...