by Kate Dolan | Jan 1, 2016 | Colonial America, Holidays, Latest Posts, Living History
New Year’s Day is often considered a day of change, but there was one year that the change was a bit bigger than usual for Great Britain and her colonies. The change had nothing to do with New Year’s resolutions and the fact that eleven days went missing had nothing...
by Kate Dolan | Sep 6, 2011 | Articles, Colonial America, Latest Posts, Living History
September 6 – if you’d been alive on this date in 1752, it would be have been September 14. And so would yesterday and tomorrow and, well, most of next week, really. September was a really messed up month in 1752, at least for Protestants. Let me back up a bit....
