New England
About New England
New England is a region consisting of six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. It is bordered by the state of New York to the west and by the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick to the northeast and Quebec to the north. The Gulf of Maine and Atlantic Ocean are to the east and southeast, and Long Island Sound is to the southwest. Boston is New England's largest city and the capital of Massachusetts. Greater Boston, comprising the Boston–Worcester–Providence Combined Statistical Area, houses more than half of the region's total population. The Greater Boston area includes Worcester, Massachusetts, the second-largest city in New England; Manchester, New Hampshire, the largest city in New Hampshire; and Providence, Rhode Island, the capital of and largest city in Rhode Island. In 1620, the Pilgrims established Plymouth Colony, the second successful settlement in British America after the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, founded in 1607. Ten years later, Puritans established Massachusetts Bay Colony north of Plymouth Colony. Over the next 126 years, people in the region fought in four French and Indian Wars until the English colonists and their Iroquois allies defeated the French and their Algonquian allies.
On the show — 32 mentions total
The first New England whalers, the first people from North America who were whaling around there, started in 1791 — that was 227 years ago. There might be some whales alive who remember a time before whaling in that area of the world.
from 237: No Such Thing As A Closed-Minded Tortoise, 2018-10-05 at 00:02:07 · read transcript
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How do you mine for alpacas? Is it people's alpaca right? It's cold. I'm from New England and in Western New England, there was a huge llama and alpaca boom. People started raising alpacas and llamas for their fur to make into textiles and yarn and junk. They're also adorably dumb to look at. They're my favorite animal, if anyone, if any fans want to get me a present, get me a llama.
163: No Such Thing As Too Fast For A Fish, 2017-05-05 · listen
They had been brought over as oily cooks, which is the Dutch word meaning oily cakes. Cakes were cooked in oil. Then in New England, there was a woman called Elizabeth Gregory, and her son was a ship's captain, and she wanted to feed him, you know, keep him well fed at sea and all of that. She put nuts in the centre of the little cakes she made.
No Such Thing As The Doughnut Ambassador, 2025-09-11 · listen
I think the nut thing doesn't make sense because the word nuts just means a cake, like ginger nuts or biscuits or whatever. The fact that it was invented by him and he put the hole in, the dates do work. Okay. It definitely was invented somewhere around New England, and it was definitely around that time when we first see donuts with holes in. He was really proud of it. If he didn't do it, he really embraced the idea that he did.
600: No Such Thing As The Doughnut Ambassador, 2025-09-11 · listen
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