Cobblestone articles from November 2003

Cobblestone archives from November 2003

Editor's note.
November 1, 2003... Anne Hutchinson was born in England in 1591. So why is she an important figure in American history? Consider the following: The government of the United States is set up to keep church (religions) and state (government) separate. American...

'More bold than a man'.
November 1, 2003... In 1642, shortly after the death of her husband, fifty-one-year-old Anne Hutchinson and seven of her children moved from Rhode Island to the Dutch colony of New Netherland. She began to establish a home for her family in the wilderness of...

From Alford to London.(early Massachusetts' colonists Anne Hutchinson family history)
November 1, 2003... In 1591, Anne Marbury was born in Alford, England. A small town about eighty miles north of London, Alford was surrounded by fields and pastures. Farmers came there to sell their crops and wool from their sheep. Alford also had a preparatory...

Religious tensions.
November 1, 2003... Anne Marbury was born into a world of religious tension. It began with King Henry VIII of England. In 1521, he rejected the new and radical doctrines sweeping across Europe. The Pope, leader of the Roman Catholic Church, praised Henry and...

A city of extremes.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... In the early 1600s, London and its surrounding countryside were experiencing a population explosion. By 1625, the population of London had doubled to 200,000. Seventeenth-century London was a city of extremes, where poverty and wealth...

Wife & mother.(American colonist Anne (Marbury) Hutchinson)
November 1, 2003... Long before she inspired controversy in the New World, Anne (Marbury) Hutchinson was a wife and mother in England. Anne married William Hutchinson when she was twenty-one years old. William came from a successful merchant family in Alford,...

Aboard the Griffin.
November 1, 2003... Between 1620 and 1643, about twenty thousand English men, women, and children made the three-thousand-mile journey across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World--specifically, New England. Sometimes called the "Great Migration," this huge movement...

In whose opinion?(Quote of the Month)
November 1, 2003... Today, many people believe that Anne Hutchinson was a brave woman who tried to expand religious freedom and improve the role of women in colonial America. But at the time and place in which she lived, most colonists held a very different...

Did you know?(various prominent women in early colonial America)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Here are a few other 17th-century women who, like Anne Hutchinson, dared to challenge tradition in early colonial America. In 1638, Margaret Brent received the first grant of land awarded to a woman in Maryland. Over the next 20 years, she...

Daily life in the 1600s.
November 1, 2003... To understand what life was like in the 1600s, try to imagine a world without the convenience of things we take for granted today. Life without electricity, running water, cars, telephones, bathrooms, supermarkets, clothing stores--can you...

Midwife, leader, troublemaker.
November 1, 2003... One of the first things Anne Hutchinson did after arriving in Boston, Massachusetts, from England was to lay out her packets of herbs and roots (both of which were the medicines used by midwives). As the mother of fifteen children, she had a...

Trial of the century: a play.
November 1, 2003... The Cast Greta and Connie, reporters who travel back in time to give an account of history's news Anne Hutchinson John Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony Thomas Dudley, deputy governor John Cotton, Hugh...

Exile in the wilderness: Anne Hutchinson in Rhode Island.
November 1, 2003... No one who disagreed with church officials was welcome in Massachusetts Bay. Two years before Anne Hutchinson's trial, Roger Williams, a minister in Salem, Massachusetts, had been banished for his opinions. He believed that the government and...

Name dropper crossword puzzle.
November 1, 2003... The story of Anne Hutchinson's life reads like a who's who of famous sixteenth- and seventeenth-century people. This puzzle contains the first names of people in England and the New World who lived during Hutchinson's lifetime or with whom she...

Brain ticklers.(Massachusetts Bay colonist Anne Hutchinson)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Give your brain a little tickle to see how well you read and understood this issue on Anne Hutchinson If you believe the answer to be false, give yourself the ultimate test and see whether you can explain why it is false. Answers on page 43....

A final word.
November 1, 2003... Anne Hutchinson would have felt welcome in the Society of Friends, or Quakers. They accepted all people as equals and had women leaders, as is shown here. Picture Credits: North Wind Picture Archives: 2, 5, 12, 13 (top), 27, 28, 30, 31...

Religious freedom.(Letters)
November 1, 2003... Anne Hutchinson was a great person. In Massachusetts, the Puritans didn't let you have religious freedom. If you wanted to pray to God, you had to go through the church officials. Because Anne Hutchinson wanted religious freedom, she was kicked...

The rock.(Letters)
November 1, 2003... Silent. Gray and bumpy all over. A common sight in nature. While blades of grass lean over the rock, and green cactus tendrils sway above its top, many ants crawl silently over its peak. Jessica...

Green.(Letters)(Poem)
November 1, 2003... A green lime smell -- sweet and bumpy to the touch. Sitting in a green meadow makes me feel peaceful and gentle. In a green forest with animals, I feel kind and loved. The green leaves on the trees bring a...

All in my garden grow.(Letters)(Poem)
November 1, 2003... In my garden, you will find green sprouts popping up, golden cornstalks over there, massive tomatoes over here, and a pumpkin that I can carve next year! All in my garden grow! Abigail Alsip Daphne,...

Snowflakes.(Letters)(Poem)
November 1, 2003... A snowflake fell from the sky and landed on my cheek. I thought to myself, "How graceful and sleek." Knowing that snowflakes melt away feels like a crime. Yet, I watch them fall and hope that next year,...

Blue.(Letters)
November 1, 2003... Blue is a quiet color. Blue falls softly in the rain. Blue is in the sky with soft, fluffy clouds. Blue is a waterfall that cascades into an ocean of whales and dolphins. Blue is beautiful. Josie...

Animals from A to Z.(Letters)
November 1, 2003... Anna Ant ate an apple. Becca Bee buzzes Bobby Bat. Chinchillas carry crates. Dogs don't do drugs. Excellent elephants eat every day. Funny frogs feed friends. Great gorillas gobble grapefruit. ...

Dear Cobblestonians.
November 1, 2003... Over the years, COBBLESTONE has focused various issues on different immigrant groups. In May 2004, we will look at those Americans whose ancestry is linked to the land south of the United States. Mexican Americans have a long, rich history in...

Books to read.(Digging Deeper)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Anne Hutchinson, Religious Leader by Elizabeth Ilgenfritz (Broomall, Pennsylvania: Chelsea House Publishers, 1991) is part of the American Women of Achievement series and portrays Hutchinson as an intelligent and courageous woman who was...

More media.(Digging Deeper)
November 1, 2003... Puritan New England, part of the Landmarks of Faith video series, visits the places in America where religious beliefs took root and grew. This is a visual journey from Plymouth Rock to the American Revolution that takes time out to uncover the...

On the web.(Digging Deeper)
November 1, 2003... www.rootsweb.com/~nwa/ah.html brings you to a biographical sketch of Anne Marbury Hutchinson, as well as photographs of statues and memorials dedicated to her. Compiled by Sam Behling, who states that Hutchinson was his "tenth...

Places to visit.(Digging Deeper)
November 1, 2003... Roger Williams National Memorial, Providence, Rhode Island. Exhibits here feature the state's founder and one of the earliest advocates of religious freedom in the New World. This park also promotes research on colonial history and holds...

A Matter of Conscience: the Trial of Anne Hutchinson.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... A Matter of Conscience: The Trial of Anne Hutchinson by Joan Kane Nichols (Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Raintree Publishers, 1992) tells the story of Bostonian Anne Hutchinson in the 1600s. She believed that the local church ministers preached the...

From the archives.
November 1, 2003... To read more about the early colonial period, pick up King Philip's War (COB0010), Contest for Empire, 1754-1763 (COB9104), Deerfield: A Colonial Perspective (COB9509), Pilgrims to a New World (COB8911), Roger Williams and the Lively Experiment...