The name, from a Victorian slang term meaning “tipsy," is in keeping with the unpretentious approach to wine and the communal, convivial vibe. (Nibbles provided, or BYOF.)
In "Remarkable Women" Carole Owens is able to extrapolate from the formal and often obscure language of court documents and legal filings, the rough and tumble times of illicit sex, greed, land grabbing lawyers, and powerful oligarchies.
Benedict Arnold is a name synonymous with treason. The facts seem clear; the motivation eludes us. Why did Arnold, a man good at his job, throw it all away?
In 1774, the town of Pittsfield voted to condemn the Boston Tea Party, describing its participants as "irregular and in defiance of the good and wholesome laws of the land and to be detestable and [against] all good order."
The slave trade in the New World did not begin with Blacks kidnapped from the African continent and taken to America. It began with Indians kidnapped from America between 1614 and 1620 and taken to Europe.
In 1785, the problem was that inoculation against Small Pox was outlawed in many states including Massachusetts. People who had suffered and survived a ravaging disease now faced prosecution.
