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490 - Periwigs in America

The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds

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The Long Haired Bullshit

Roksburrys, the people of rokburry patitioned the court because the harvard college students were galaventing around in their long hair. Puritans like sammel suell, a judge and printer in the massachusetts colony, believed the wearing of wigs to be a gage of moral charactersure. W he's totally normal. When wiggs first came to new england, they're not the flamboyant version that's in elitis england at this point. But still, many puritans are upset by them.

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