Massachusetts
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9.8K2Old Ironsides: The Poem
Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones collection. On Sept. 16, 1830, the Boston Daily Advertiser published the poem “Old Ironsides,” by a 21-year-old...
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11.5K4Sandwich, Mass. in 1774 – Setting the Battlelines for Revolution
To get an idea of the how intense the feuding between the British loyalists and the Colonial rebels was in 1774 in...
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7.6K9John Cheever: Reluctant New Dealer on the Way to Fame
John Cheever, the sadly elegant chronicler of New England WASPdom, spent a year working for Franklin Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration. He spent...
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10.7K11The Winnipesaukee Water War and the 1859 Fight for NH Property Rights
On Sept 28, 1859, James Worster led 50 angry farmers, mill operators, loggers and laborers in a vain effort to destroy a...
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5.8K2The Birds’ Best Friend: How Ernest Baynes Saved the Animals
Ernest Baynes was the closest thing New England, and the world for that matter, will ever get to a real-life Dr. Doolittle....
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5.1K3Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Take a Freedom Trail Out of Boston
In 1951, Boston Evening Traveler columnist Walter Schofield began campaigning for the city to create a path taking pedestrians past milestones of...
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