On the morning of June 17, 1775, smoke curled above the hills of Charlestown. Red-coated British regulars stood in ranks across the Charles River, on what is now Boston’s North End …
For those who’ve spent a Fourth of July in Manchester in the past half-century, the chances are awfully good they’ve seen Scott Milne gliding down the parade route on his antique bicycle, …
When Hammond Castle Museum was built by the inventor John Hays Hammond Jr. in the 1920s, it was an architectural marvel: a castle with a striking blend of historical European styles, incorporating …
It’s a chilling true crime from 1932 Cape Ann. And it’s getting a fresh look in a book published this week, Murder in Rockport: Terror in a Small Town , written by Rob Fitzgibbon …
“Life back then” in Manchester, or anywhere one might suppose, looked a whole lot different in the 1960s and 70s. The archive of the Manchester Cricket’s newspaper has been …
I remember being a kid no more than six or seven years old, digging up sea worms and clams at low tide in the flats behind our house at 4 Ashland Avenue, overlooking the inner harbor. Rubber …
The Manchester-by-the-Sea Museum officially kicked off its 2024-2025 lecture season last Thursday with a presentation on the 19th Century proliferation of—and Manchester’s successful efforts to …