Articles by Johnna Kaplan

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Stories

Stories shared by this traveler.

Pounds for wayward livestock—like this one in Foster, Rhode Island—were considered so essential that communities were legally required to build them.

walls

New England Is Riddled With These Mysterious Stone Enclosures

They’re town pounds—forgotten livestock pens that played a key civic role in colonial life.

Tallmadge Church

architecture

Northeast Ohio is Built Like New England Because It Used to Be Owned by Connecticut

From architecture to namesakes.