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The worst hurricane in New England history happened on this day

No, not the Hurricane of '38. The Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635, at least, based on a 2006 analysis for the National Hurricane Center, which features eyewitness accounts from William Bradford of Plymouth and John Winthrop (yes, that John Winthrop) of Boston:

The wind having blown hard at S. and S.W. a week before, about midnight it came up at N.E. and blew with such violence, with abundance of rain, that it blew down many hundreds of trees, near the towns, overthrew some houses, and drove the ships from their anchors. The Great Hope, of Ipswich, being about four hundred tons, was driven aground at Mr. Hoffe's Point, and brought back again presently by a N. W. wind, and ran on shore at Charlestown. About eight of the clock the wind came about to N.W. very strong, and it being then about high water, by nine the tide had fallen three feet. Then it began to flow again about one hour, and rose about two or three feet, which was conceived to be, that the sea was grown so high abroad with a N.E. wind, that, meeting with the ebb, it forced it back again.

This tempest was not so far as Cape Sable, but to the south more violent, and made a double tide all that coast. ... The tide rose at Narragansett fourteen feet higher than ordinary, and drowned eight Indians flying from their wigwams.

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Thanks Adam!

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Cambridge

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From Boston (the West End, before it was razed), not Cambridge

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And, as anyone who saw an IMAX film at the Museum of Science back in the day knows, a former resident of the West End.

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Or even today. They still play the same clip before every movie.

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Goes to show how long it's been since I've been to the IMAX.

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Leonard Nimoy is from Boston.

Did you know that the only reason he signed on to do the Wrath of Khan was because they were going to kill of Spock- he was hoping to move on from that. Didn't work out that way as he's even in the new films...

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I've heard that too about ST:TWoK, but it's unlikely Mr. Nimoy would find offense in Adam's light-hearted conflation these days.

Yes, he spent some time feeling typecast and objectified - cf his first autobiography I Am Not Spock.

But over the years he's turned around on the subject - cf his latest autobiography I Am Spock.

He's also said, in recent interviews, that although he still misses the West End and considers its destruction a social crime (amen), his resentment towards the-powers-that-were has faded with age and he now harbors warm feelings towards his home town - which is great, because for a long time he couldn't even bring himself to visit!

He's a tremendously talented and interesting person, and I'm really proud to call him a fellow Bostonian. A few years ago the city declared a day in his honor during a visit, and last year he recieved an honorary degree from BU. I would love to see city hall consider a more substantial appreciation - perhaps renaming one of the city scholarships for young performing or visual art students in his honor.

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We reach!

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Where is Mr. Hoffe's Point?

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At least, according to a footnote in this source.

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I never fly my wigwam during a storm

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Same year as Boston Latin School was founded.

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Finally a post referencing John Winthrop I can use to point out the first ever reference to Boston Winthrop made in his many diaries:

"Boston: A goat died there today."

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