History

Down to the Sea | From Our Archives

Martha Hale Harvey documented the landscapes and people of turn-of-the-century Cape Ann. Among Martha Hale Harvey’s hundreds of photos of Cape Ann life is this portrait of her husband, George Wainwright Harvey (1855–1930), an oil and watercolor artist renowned for his landscape and maritime scenes. Born in Gloucester in 1862, Martha Hale Rogers married her […]

New Hampshire

The World at Your Fingertips | Old Number Six Book Depot

Atop a forested New Hampshire hillside, up past an ancient snow-covered burial ground and a 19th-century railroad station, a big green spruce graces the front yard of an old white-clapboard farmhouse. Inside the attached two-story barn, a first-class education awaits. A labyrinth of homemade shelving is stuffed floor to ceiling with every species of the […]

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History | Freeman Family Letters from 1829–1852

At the end of a dirt path winding gently south from the Old Sturbridge Village green, a worn yet tidy farmhouse sits humbly upon the land. For some 23 years of its long life, it belonged to one Pliny Freeman Sr., who settled here with his wife, Delia, and their two youngest children in 1828. […]

Magazine

‘Write Often, Write When You Think Best’

At the end of a dirt path winding gently south from the Old Sturbridge Village green, a worn yet tidy farmhouse sits humbly upon the land. For some 23 years of its long life, it belonged to one Pliny Freeman Sr., who settled here with his wife, Delia, and the two youngest of their seven […]

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