Word: sabbatarians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Massachusetts sabbatarian statute dates from 1692, the time of the Salem witchcraft trials, and has remained on the books ever since. The heart of the law, now as in the seventeenth century, is, "Whoever on the Lord's Day keeps open his shop, warehouse, or work-house or does any matter of labor, business or work except works of neccesity or charity shall be punished by a fine of not more than...
...Lilly's long life as a hunter he probably killed close to 1,000 bears and mountain lions. He might have killed more but for one Sabbatarian self-limitation: he would abandon even the freshest trail on Saturday evening and refuse to pick it up again until Monday morning. Says Author Dobie: Ben Lilly "was in the tradition of the Mountain Men and was the very last man in that tradition. There can never be another...