It could do with a little work, that's for sure.

According to Erwin Ackerknecht, the disease was hyperepidemic in New England from 1870 to 1890.

She lingers over the Aquinnahs' continued love of yokeag, the food made from white flint corn that has been parched and pounded—the fine cornmeal the Narragansetts shared with Roger Williams, the same food that Thomas Stanton must have eaten on his long walk to Boston three centuries earlier.

Prior to her school days, my mother spoke French Patois [Antillean Creole] better than she spoke English. Her knowledge of Patois declined once she was at school as the nuns forbade the children from speaking their Pala Wala language in the school yard because they did not understand what the children were saying.