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The old house, once neglected and sagging, has moved center stage. Saved from a bulldozer almost 40 years ago in Ipswich, Massachusetts, this 18th-century Georgian-style dwelling has itself found ...
Ed Sheeran appears to like Massachusetts. He's opening the Old Phone Pub in Ipswich, just days after his surprise appearance at a Boston bar on St. Patrick's Day. The pop-up Irish pub will open ...
BREWING UP A GOOD STORY: 17th Century Colonial Dames Hear Program ... “Dorothy Goode and the Massachusetts Witch Trials, 1692-1693.” Over two hundred people were accused of practicing witchcraft.
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The 17th century laws against Christmas celebrations ... personally ripped down festive decorations from the doors of homes and churches, only to be set upon by jeering crowds that caused his ...
This was not the first case of a fire causing damage to the church. In January 1862, another fire completely destroyed the house of worship. It was rebuilt in 1863. /Telegraph/ ...
DEARBORN, MICHIGAN—The site of the seventeenth-century home of John Doane, one of the first English families to settle in what is now the town of Eastham, Massachusetts, has been excavated by ...
One discovery was a group of rare paper cutouts created onsite during the period in the 17th century that Sutton House was a school for girls. Eight of these have now gone on display at the ...
The village of Culross, on the north bank of the River Forth, was once a bustling port and its steep streets and narrow wynds would have been filled with the traffic of horses, people and carts ...
That volume connects three conflicts, the impacts of which were felt strongly on both sides of the Atlantic: the English Civil War of the 17th century ... and Massachusetts (the Puritan capital ...