On the Massachusetts North Shore
Recipe For Disaster is a six minute video about the explosion of European Green Crabs in the Great Salt Marsh. The mission of GreenCrab.org is to develop markets and promote consumption of green crabs to mitigate their invasive impact.
Order at Amazon Ornithologist Jim Berry of Ipswich has updated Charles Wendell Townsend's "The Birds of Essex County," including songbirds, marsh birds, seabirds, raptors, and other species that visit our yards, woodlands, marshes, and coastlines. The two-volume set documents the natural history of all the bird species that have ever been positively documented in Essex County,… Continue reading Two-Volume Set Documents the Birds of Essex County
Kitty Robertson's Measuring time—by an hourglass is an exquisite collection of essays, reflections on a 20th century life in small town New England that first were published in the Ipswich Chronicle. Kitty was also the author of "The Orchard: A Memoir".
In 1963 Charles F. Haywood published the Yankee Dictionary, dedicated to his parents “both of whom loved Old New England, its life, its people, its history, its customs and its speech.”
When Ipswich was settled in the 1630s, the immigrants came from only one area of England, and they brought with them the socio-economic ranking system they knew in the old country.
Historic Ipswich 