Stories on this site about specific people

• Jane Hooper, the fortune-teller
• How the Irish Made Their Mark in New England
• 300 years on Grape Island
• Choate Island and Rufus Choate
• The Gerrymander is born in Essex County, February 11, 1812
• The Body Snatcher of Chebacco Parish
• Class of ’48
• Arthur Wesley Dow
• Heritage and Genealogy
• Crocker Snow, Aviation Pioneer
• Paul Revere’s not so famous ride through Ipswich, December 13, 1774
• The Rev. John Wise of Ipswich
• Early American Gardens
• 2018 Mary Conley Award
• 2017 Mary Conley Award
• Death in a snowstorm, December 1, 1722
• Ipswich mob attacks Loyalist John Calef
• Freedom for Jenny Slew
• General Michael Farley
• Daniel Hovey
• “At long last, sir, have you left no sense of decency?”
• The tragic story of Rebecca Rawson, 1679
• “We’re Here For a Good Time, Not For a Long Time.” Remembering the Celebrated Life of Ipswich Police Officer Ed Walsh.
• The Battle of Middle Ground
• Sarah Dillingham Caldwell
• Abigail Adams to John Adams: “All men would be tyrants if they could.”
• Samuel Symonds, gentleman: complaint to Salem court against his two servants, 1661
• Nancy Weare
• Norman Rockwell Depicted an Idealized Version of American Thanksgiving
• Nancy’s Corner
• Horses and Equestrians
• Last Roundup at the Lazy-K Ranch
• Thoreau July Bicentennial Celebrated in Concord and Around the World
• Abbott Lowell Cummings, author of “The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay”
• Homes of the Jewetts
• Homes of the Lords
• A St. Patrick’s Day Reflection
• Living Descendants of the Native Americans of Agawam
• Portraits from Ipswich, a century ago
• A town of immigrants
• The Man in Full: Honoring the Life and Times of Ipswich Police Officer Officer Charles B. Schwartz
• An MLK Day Reflection – “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”
• Moll Pitcher, the fortune-teller of Lynn and Marblehead
• The Lowell Offering
• Jake Burridge, the sailor
• George Washington returns to Mount Vernon, Christmas Eve 1783
• William Clancy, WWI hero
• Ralph W. Burnham, Antiques and Hooked Rugs
• Remembering Poe
• Teddy Roosevelt’s “whistlestop” in Ipswich, 1912