All posts tagged "Ipswich Mass."
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27.0K2ConnecticutHow the Daughters of Liberty Fought for Independence
On August 14, 1768, the Daughters of Liberty cheered from windows as the Sons of Liberty paraded through Boston to commemorate their...
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9.5K6MassachusettsA 27-year-old Woman Died in a 1913 Ipswich Mill Strike; She Never Did Get Justice
On June 10, 1913 a long simmering Ipswich mill strike was grinding onward. For weeks seven hundred mostly Greek workers at the...
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9.6K2Crime and ScandalCaptain Walter Barefoot Fights the Law, 17th-Century Style
Back in the day when lawyers were cheap, Capt. Walter Barefoot was in and out of court almost 150 times during the...
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43.9K28Business and LaborThe Invention of the Fried Clam
On July 3, 1916, Lawrence ‘Chubby’ Woodman invented the fried clam – or at least as we know the revered mollusk today. It...
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13.3K14MassachusettsRemembering the Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635
The Great Colonial Hurricane, probably the strongest storm in New England’s history, struck on Aug. 25, 1635. The Rev. Richard Mather and...
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6.2K10Crime and ScandalRufus Choate Wins Trial of the Century With Sleepwalking Defense
Rufus Choate was the first person to successfully use the sleepwalking defense in a sensational 19th-century trial for a man accused of...
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9.4K9Arts and LeisureAnne Bradstreet, 1st Woman Poet in America
Anne Bradstreet wasn’t just the first woman to be published in England’s North American colonies. She was the first Englishwoman to publish...
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4.9K2MassachusettsThe 54th Massachusetts Regiment Waits 18 Months To Get Paid
Exactly one year after the 54th Massachusetts Regiment marched through Boston Common in a blaze of glory, Pvt. Francis H. Fletcher wrote bitterly...
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