The Manchester-by-the-Sea Museum has a busy September ahead, with shipwrecks, local history walks and two hands-on children's programs among a series of free events offered in conjunction with Essex Heritage’s Trails & Sails.
A live falconry demonstration drew visitors to the oceanfront lawn behind Hammond Castle Museum in Magnolia on Friday.
It sure helped that the night was a magical, perfect summer evening, with a setting designed to marvel at.
When dozens of tall ships and historic sailing vessels converging on Boston Harbor earlier this week for Sail Boston 250, the Essex Historical Society & Shipbuilding Museum reported that Essex was represented in a way few communities can match.
The Fourth of July in Manchester-by-the-Sea has been a beloved celebration, since 1776, and full of tradition. For generations, residents and visitors have enjoyed the historic parade, fireworks display, a patriotic breakfast, and other festivities added over the years.
Beth Welin, director of collections at Hammond Castle Museum and former director of the Manchester-by-the-Sea Museum, has received a Star Award from the Massachusetts History Alliance in recognition of her work preserving and expanding access to historical records and archives.
In honor of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence this July 4, here’s a reading list to remember, celebrate, and commemorate our country’s history.
Veterans’ organizations in Manchester and Essex are preparing Memorial Day observances this weekend, including cemetery ceremonies, parades and community gatherings honoring military service members who died in combat.
On Friday, the Cape Ann Museum took delivery of a very special item—an outsized sculpture with a Manchester connection.
If you happen to be traveling through Monroe, Georgia, you will see a statue of Monia Belle Michael, a Georgian lady of Huguenot ancestry, a Daughter of the American Revolution, and so much more.
Members of the Manchester-by-the-Sea Museum gathered on the Town Common Saturday morning for the raising of a replica “Forster” flag, believed to be the oldest known American flag with 13 stripes representing the original colonies.
Sometime around 1811, the story goes, Essex contractor Moses Andrews, digging a cellar hole, unearthed something unusual. It wasn’t just another fieldstone or fragment of ledge. It was a stone, carved into the distinct shape of a human head.
The iconic River House overlooking Manchester Harbor provides a lovely background as boats lay at anchor on a still August morning.
Last week’s snow storm that dumped more than two feet of snow on Cape Ann in 24 hours prompted many locals to think back nearly 50 years to the day to another February winter storm.
Bailey’s Garage was a mainstay of Manchester life for nearly 100 years. With its huge Pegasus logo on the roof, was one of only a handful of gas stations in what was then just plain old Manchester—and the only one open until 9 p.m., writes Don Kimball, who worked for years at the station as a teenager ....
On Friday, a team from The Open Door arrived at the Cape Ann Museum with a very special donation: an exceptionally rare textile, “Zodiac” by Virginia Lee Burton Demetrios, founder of the Folly …
The holidays are approaching as the nation drifts through yet another cycle of uncertainty—the federal shutdown, political division, civic fatigue—the First Parish Congregational Church …
In colonial America, education was limited, mostly religious, and far from universal. Also, books were rare, and libraries were almost all in private collections. That began to …
A delicate sea breeze swept over the rolling landscape of Misselwood at Endicott College in Beverly, the expansive 97-year-old property that played host on Saturday to what has become one of the …
90 Years Ago – 1935 The Annual Picnic of the Congregational Church and Sunday school was held at Tuck’s Point Monday and proved a delightful occasion for all, the weather being fine …
