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More on the War of 1812
To the editor: Colin Woodard’s article “When Britain Invaded Maine” is of great interest to me as I have been researching Massachusetts’s role in the War of 1812 for nearly 50 years… Massachusetts was violently anti-war, more so than the recent Vietnam War, and the reason was political. The opposition party had won the presidency.
A historian’s memories
To the editor: The article on the “Grand Design” in your March issue by Steve Cartwright and the great research done on this shipwreck by Julia Lane triggered a lot of memories. I first heard of this wreck in Edward Rowe Snow’s Storms and Shipwrecks of New England (1944). It was basically the same story