John Mytton is often called an eccentric, but that doesn’t really capture his whole story. Despite his wild behavior, he's something of a local hero, and sometimes a joke, but his life is sort of sad in many ways.
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Eponymous Foods: Oops All Noodles
Frank Duveneck and Elizabeth Boott
SYMHC Classics: Great Vowel Shift
Behind the Scenes Minis: Conjecture and Child Actors
The Clifton Star Chamber Case and Kidnapped Child Actors
The Mad Gasser of Mattoon
SYMHC Classics: W.C. Minor
Behind the Scenes Minis: War of the Words
Webster, Worcester and the Dictionary Wars, Part 2
Webster, Worcester and the Dictionary Wars, Part 1
SYMHC Classics: Julian Eltinge
Behind the Scenes Minis: Square Dancing on a Wire
Square Dancing
Vander Clyde Broadway, aka Barbette
SYMHC Classics: George Sand
Behind the Scenes Minis: Music and Tomatoes
Nix v. Hedden and Tomatoes as Vegetables
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
SYMHC Classics: Frederick Douglass
Behind the Scenes Minis: Lucy and Ruth
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