What were a man's town militia duties? How did one
run a farm, including the slaughtering and butchering of animals, which
still goes on at the theme park to this day? Could a farm woman die
of an infected cooking burn? Take a town "quiz" to see how much you
know about life in Jacksonian America. How did secret societies,
like the freemasons or "Odd Fellows" hold meetings in small-town
America? Join us on a boatride on The Blackstone Canal, and find out
about the brief, but glorious "Tom Sawyer" age of canals, river steamboats
and clipper ships that died out with railroads and the coming age of steam. 

Did Yankee gunsmith Colt sell guns to the Confederacy? What
effect did the Civil War have on small-town life in The North? Why did they
build so many covered bridges in northern New England? How did
the whaling industry work and what is a whale oil lamp? How did nocturnal
torch parades, like The Wide Awakes, function in 19th Century Politics?
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