All posts tagged "cemetery"
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2.8KMassachusettsMashie Miaskiewicz, a Salem War Hero, Comes Home
In 1942, like thousands of men from throughout New England, a young man from a Polish neighborhood in Salem, Mass., enlisted to...
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4.0KConnecticutNew Haven’s Center Church Crypt, the Puritan City of the Dead
In the basement of an old Congregational church on New Haven Green lies a small city of the dead. One hundred thirty...
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5.7KMassachusettsThe Wreck of the Famine Ship St. John (According to Thoreau)
On Oct. 7, 1849, the brig St. John struck Grampus Ledge off the coast of Cohasset during a sudden and furious storm....
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5.4KArts and LeisureEdith Wharton in Paris During World War I
Life for Edith Wharton in Paris was lived in stimulating freedom and aristocratic luxury until World War I broke out. Shocked by...
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6.8KMassachusettsAgrippa Hull, Race Under British Rule
After decades of neglect the common burial grounds of slaves are now being documented, honored and preserved from New York to Mississippi...
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8.3KArts and LeisureDiscover the Hidden History All Around You
You wouldn’t want to see one of New England’s historic buildings, landscapes or icons without knowing about its hidden past, would you?...
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