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    An alewife, also brewess or brewster, was a woman who brewed ale for commercial sale. Women have been active in brewing since before the process's industrialisation...
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  • alewife in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Alewife may refer to: Alewife (fish), a North American herring Alewife (trade), a female brewer Alewife station...
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  • despite changes over time. List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1989 Alewife (trade) Barbara Hanawalt; David Wallace (1 January 1996). Bodies and Disciplines:...
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    nets and weirs, moving about in birch bark canoes. In April, they netted alewife, sturgeon and salmon. In May, they caught cod with hook and line in the...
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    seventeenth century colonists fished for alewives using fishing weirs in Alewife Brook (which passed through the swamps to the north of Fresh Pond) following...
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    Massachusett tribe lived around the Mystic Lakes, the Mystic River, and Alewife Brook. Chief Nanepashemet was killed by a rival tribe in about 1619, and...
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  • leaving the Cedar Forest, a forest of ten thousand leagues span. Siduri, the alewife, lived on the shore, associated with "the Waters of Death" that Gilgamesh...
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    Wenham Lake (category Ice trade)
    (10 m). Alewife harvests continued to be important until the 19th century when dam construction on the Ipswich River and other streams ended the trade. The...
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    station on the Green Line, and Alewife, Porter, Harvard, Central, and Kendall Square/MIT stations on the Red Line. Alewife station, the terminus of the...
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    streets continued to rise, and road construction projects proliferated. The Alewife Brook Parkway, Mystic Valley Parkway and the Fells Connector Parkways,...
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