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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 🧳
Im afraid this song will never stop being relevant
October 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
This would be the #puritans second taste of rebellion against the crown. The American Revolution stood on generations of angry men and women. #history
October 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
The grandchildren of those who supported the English Civil War (bye-bye King, hello Cromwell), surrounded the Governor Sir Edmund Andros, James II’s hated governor of the Dominion of New England. He tried to flee in women's clothing, but was caught. The colonists restored their old governments...
October 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Gosh, how does Europe function at all with all those old buildings? Why is it uniquely difficult in the US to maintain anything nice?
October 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I just listened to a job interview being conducted in a coffee shop
October 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
And right-wing influencers are also paid. Some even from Russia. Let’s fight a fair fight eh?
October 6, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Source: De Normandie, James. “John Eliot, the Apostle to the Indians.” The Harvard Theological Review 5, no. 3 (1912): 349–70. www.jstor.org/stable/1507287.
John Eliot, the Apostle to the Indians on JSTOR
James De Normandie, John Eliot, the Apostle to the Indians, The Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 5, No. 3 (Jul., 1912), pp. 349-370
www.jstor.org
September 29, 2025 at 10:55 AM
... or ministry especially, and in particular in their long haire, which last, first took hand and broke out at Colledg, so far as we under-stand and remember, and now it is got into the pulpit to the greatgreife and offense of many godly hearts in the country."
September 29, 2025 at 10:55 AM
It seems to have started as a trend for the college boys and spread. We can tell from his portrait that he would come to embrace a nice bob. Eliot writes: "They are brought up in such pride as doth no wayes become such as are brought up for the holy service of the Lorde, either in the magistracy...
September 29, 2025 at 10:55 AM
The Dutch didn’t allow the colony to last very long, but they had their own little moment!
September 28, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Today, the oldest house in New Jersey was built by these Swedes. Kristina, Del. is the only town that retained its original Swedish name, but you will find Swedesboro and Swedesburg nearby. Read Pehr Kalm's "Travels in North America: English Version of 1770" if you're interested in their descents.
September 27, 2025 at 8:21 PM
With a strongly worded letter?
September 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM