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On Saturday, May 20, 2023, Lowell Cemetery will host a Veterans Tour of the cemetery to recognize and remember those who served in the military forces of the United States. Rather than a standard tour led by a single guide, this tour will have volunteer guides positioned at each of…
Read More »April 2023 Dispatch: Port Townsend, Washington By Michael McCormick After spending nearly seventy years in New England and Alaska, I am welcoming spring’s arrival in the Evergreen State. Since the third week of March, I have lived in a 416 square foot cottage in Port Townsend, a community of about…
Read More »NOT QUITE READY: A BOSTON STORY A short story of youthful dreaming By Jerry Bisantz Copyright 2023 I must start with this confession: I was born and raised in Buffalo, NY. You know Buffalo, right? Butt of a million and a half jokes. Here’s my favorite about my favorite football…
Read More »The entry below is being cross-posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Lots of time for reading when you’re waiting for broken bones to heal! Fiction to follow. After the Last Border:Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America by Jessica Goudeau tells the often-checkered history of American treatment of refugees,…
Read More »Important Life Lesson By Charles Gargiulo My Mom decided to send me to a Catholic high school after I graduated from my Catholic elementary school. I don’t know why it was such a big deal to her since she never went to church and I never did either, but it…
Read More »The ”sale” of Wamesit The end of King Philip’s War did not bring an end to the ill-feelings of the English towards the Native Americans. On May 24, 1677, the General Court decreed that all Native Americans living in Massachusetts must remain within the bounds of their assigned towns, like…
Read More »Yesterday was the 20th anniversary of the collapse of New Hampshire’s Old Man of the Mountain. The Old Man of the Mountain was a natural rock formation located in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, USA. It was a series of five granite cliff ledges that appeared to form the…
Read More »King Philip’s War Just to the west of Chelmsford was the town of Groton which was incorporated in 1655 and included all of today’s Groton and Ayer and parts of Pepperell, Shirley, Dunstable, Littleton, and Tyngsborough. Chelmsford and Groton were still the northwest frontier of English settlement in New England…
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