Caitlin Dwelly/Cheney/Tiulenev
@caitlinalyssat.bsky.social
History buff & writer with a focus in New England & Upstate New York 🌊🦞 #Skystorian
Retired from graphic design, marketing & film. Mothering in New England 🎠 Enjoy a bit of vintage style 👒 sometimes I travel 🧳
Retired from graphic design, marketing & film. Mothering in New England 🎠 Enjoy a bit of vintage style 👒 sometimes I travel 🧳
We had a king fighting for more voting rights? 👑
In the 1660s, Charles II ordered Massachusetts to let all landowning men vote—not just church members. The irony? Back in England, Charles II dissolved Parliament for years before his death.
#ColonialAmerica #Puritans #AmericanHistory
In the 1660s, Charles II ordered Massachusetts to let all landowning men vote—not just church members. The irony? Back in England, Charles II dissolved Parliament for years before his death.
#ColonialAmerica #Puritans #AmericanHistory
October 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
We had a king fighting for more voting rights? 👑
In the 1660s, Charles II ordered Massachusetts to let all landowning men vote—not just church members. The irony? Back in England, Charles II dissolved Parliament for years before his death.
#ColonialAmerica #Puritans #AmericanHistory
In the 1660s, Charles II ordered Massachusetts to let all landowning men vote—not just church members. The irony? Back in England, Charles II dissolved Parliament for years before his death.
#ColonialAmerica #Puritans #AmericanHistory
Massachusetts Bay ran as an almost independent Puritan republic from 1629 to 1684 — until the King annulled its charter, making their entire government was illegal on paper. They folded into the Dominion of New England, sparking one of the earliest “mini-revolutions” in American history. #history 🧵
October 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Massachusetts Bay ran as an almost independent Puritan republic from 1629 to 1684 — until the King annulled its charter, making their entire government was illegal on paper. They folded into the Dominion of New England, sparking one of the earliest “mini-revolutions” in American history. #history 🧵
King Charles II pushed for more voting rights in the 1660s. He ordered Massachusetts to expand the vote beyond church members to all landholding men. The Puritans resisted, clinging to religious purity tests for decades. Their stubbornness helped cost them their charter in 1684. #history #puritans
October 4, 2025 at 12:39 PM
My husband sent me a picture of a pregnant Governor Wentworth of New Hampshire.
September 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
My husband sent me a picture of a pregnant Governor Wentworth of New Hampshire.
Did the second generation of Puritans rebel against their parents like the hippies? Well, according to their elder, Minister John Eliot, the young men were growing their hair too long! The longer locks we think of puritan men sporting were actually a little rebellious for the time. 🧵
September 29, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Did the second generation of Puritans rebel against their parents like the hippies? Well, according to their elder, Minister John Eliot, the young men were growing their hair too long! The longer locks we think of puritan men sporting were actually a little rebellious for the time. 🧵
Shout out to New Sweden (1638-1655). A little bit of Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey was once ruled by Queen Christina. These American Swedes would revolt against the English in 1669, we know how this ends. Their legacy is the introduction of the log cabin to America. #history #colonial
September 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Timeline cleanse. My father, a liberal farmer on the 1800s family farm, is making elderberry wine. Cheers!
September 27, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Timeline cleanse. My father, a liberal farmer on the 1800s family farm, is making elderberry wine. Cheers!
Dining at a #MarkTwain haunt in #PortsmouthNH in a building designed by a distant relative for my birthday.
September 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Dining at a #MarkTwain haunt in #PortsmouthNH in a building designed by a distant relative for my birthday.
A wild time for my special interest to be puritans #witchtrials
September 24, 2025 at 12:33 AM
A wild time for my special interest to be puritans #witchtrials
August 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM
August 29, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Money in #turkiye is more progressive than in America. Fatma Aliye, was a Turkish novelist, columnist, essayist, women's rights activist and humanitarian. She appears on their ₺50 dollar lira.
August 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Money in #turkiye is more progressive than in America. Fatma Aliye, was a Turkish novelist, columnist, essayist, women's rights activist and humanitarian. She appears on their ₺50 dollar lira.
On this #4thofJuly my grandfather shared we are related to Samuel Adams. Cheers to that 🍻
July 4, 2025 at 8:20 PM
On this #4thofJuly my grandfather shared we are related to Samuel Adams. Cheers to that 🍻
July 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Spring in New England #spring #newengland
April 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Spring in New England #spring #newengland
March 27, 2025 at 9:27 PM
The 1950’s ruined little boy clothes…
March 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The 1950’s ruined little boy clothes…