Monday, March 31, 2014

Mum Bett - The Elizabeth Freeman Case

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Elizabeth Freeman (Mum Bett) - Source New England, and Massachusetts inparticular, is not  well known for its history of slavery or its ...
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Friday, February 28, 2014

Jolly Jane - Part 2

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Jachin House and the Davis family Victims of Jolly Jane After the successful murder of Mrs. Mattie Davis Jane was invited to stay th...
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Friday, January 31, 2014

Jolly Jane - Queen of the Poisoners - Cataumet, Ma

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During my research into New England history, I have been to supposedly haunted places, many graveyards after dark, and even to the resti...
Wednesday, July 3, 2013

The Mystery of Cape Cod's Boundary Stones

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I was very busy this spring preparing an article for the June 2013 Summerscape , which is published by the Barnstable Patriot.  My article...
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Friday, June 28, 2013

Connecticut - First In Flight?

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Whitehead (2nd left) in front of No. 21 "The Condor"  Most students learn in school, as I did, that Orville and Wilbur Wright...
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Friday, June 21, 2013

Happier Than Paul Revere With a Cell Phone

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I love this commercial. But I'm guessing it wasn't that easy to warn "every Middlesex village and farm." Still, even the w...
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Wampanoag Language Reclamation

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 Douglas Pocknett - from Boston Globe  It is now graduation season throughout our country. Thousands of our nation’s youth are comple...