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The Prisoners of Peddocks Island (episode 194)
The Prisoners of Peddocks Island (episode 194)
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53 minutes
Released:
Jul 19, 2020
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Podcast episode
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You may have heard stories about the Confederate prisoners who were held at Fort Warren on Georges Island during the civil war. In this episode, we’ll explore a different island that housed prisoners during a different war. Our story will start with the only soccer riot in recorded Boston history, which broke out at Carson Beach in South Boston on July 16, 1944. It will end up with Italian war prisoners confined at Fort Andrews on Peddocks Island in Boston Harbor. Along the way, we’ll meet bootleggers, artillerymen, Passamaquoddy seal hunters, opium fiends, and Portuguese-American fishermen. We’ll also be taking a virtual visit to one of my personal favorite places in the Boston area, and one that is on the brink of being sold off to luxury hotel developers.
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Full show notes: http://HUBhistory.com/194/
Support us: http://patreon.com/HUBhistory/
Released:
Jul 19, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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