Portal:New England/Did you know/7

... that Alvin Adams founded Adams and Company, forerunner to Adams Express Company, to haul express freight shipments by rail in 1840?
... that professional baseball player Terry Doyle works as a substitute teacher during the offseason?
... that Linda Bean, heiress to part of the L.L. Bean company, twice ran for the United States Congress?
... that Uncle Tom once led a professional baseball league in stolen bases?
... that American folklorist Helen Hartness Flanders recorded, transcribed and catalogued traditional ballads from New England at a time when people were ceasing to sing them?