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Events (the Local News)

• What’s on this week: Family-friendly folk dance, bread baking, tribute bands, and more!
• Ipswich father-daughter team presents new comedy, ‘Things Get Ugly’
• Newburyport Choral Society looking for singers
• Cantemus invites tenor and bass singers to audition in January
• What’s on this week: Polar Plunge, Winter Ball, Back Nine Trivia League, and more!

Tristan Ashlock

• Photos: Ninth annual Military Service Day brings public and veterans together
• “Wasn’t that something?” The Hush House and Ipswich’s very own Manhattan Project
• Chorus North Shore returns with June celebration of Bernstein’s Candide and West Side Story
• Rowley newslets: Reorganization, police grants, Triton
• Rowley dispatchers oppose regional plan

Doug Brendel

• Ipswich: Iconic Bumper Car Capital
• Tom has Jerry for dinner
• I can hear clearly now, the glorp is gone
• Your pile of Miller Lite cartons is blocking my view
• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single cancellation

Gavin Keenan

• Lucky Enough
• Irresolute Resolutions
• Time Bandits
• A Horse is a Horse
• National Police Week 2022

Bob Waite

• Lite Waite: Confessions of a dinosaur who still drinks cow milk and drives stick shift
• Lite Waite: Once you get past the Yankees and Manhattan clam chowder, New York isn’t half bad
• Lite Waite: As autumn turns to winter, I miss home and lament Queen Victoria’s folly
• Lite Waite: Could John Updike, a straight white male, find a home in today’s literary scene?
• Lite Waite: Attending my first same-sex wedding reminded me how far we’ve come

Read more columns by Bob Waite

Ipswich River Watershed Association (IRWA)

• Mapping the Future: Wilmington Students Reimagine Their Town
• The One Big Beautiful Bill Act: What It Means for Your Giving
• What’s Swimming In The Ipswich River?
• The River Has a Voice—And We Brought It to Beacon Hill
• Building a Resilient River, One Student at a Time

Historical Nerdery

• "No. 16 Tomb of Hancock" – John Hancock's Final Resting Place
• "I Do Not Consider Myself Equal to the Command With Which I Have Been Honored" – Washington Takes Command of the Continental Army
• "The Guns Were Distinctly Heard" – Two More Child Witnesses of the Battle of Bunker Hill
• "A truer heart did not bleed at Thermopylae" – The 250th Anniversary of the Death of Jonas Parker
• "They Would Come Perilously Near to Being Worthless" – The Doolittle Plates of 1775

Journal of the American Revolution

• The Association of Cumberland County, North Carolina
• Lydia’s Tale: The Mystery of Lydia Darragh, Irish Quaker, Patriot Spy
• Lt. Elijah Evans of Maryland: Unresolved Promotion in an Extra Continental Regiment
• A Journey North: Jefferson, Madison, and the Forging of a Friendship
• New Jersey’s Revolutionary Rivalry

New England Historical Society

• Quincy Granite Quarries Develop Innovative Granite Industry Technologies  
• The Christmas Tree Ships: When Schooners Brought the Holiday to American Cities
• ‘Love Stories From History,’ Bibliography and Footnotes
• The Angel Gabriel Blows Into Maine: John Sayers Orr’s Trail of Trouble from Bath to Boston and Beyond
• The Many Lives of Edward Augustus Brackett: Artist, Abolitionist, and Visionary

Nutfield Genealogy

• A Whale of a Weathervane for Weathervane Wednesday
• Happy New Year from Salem, Massachusetts 1848
• Tombstone Tuesday Ancestral Magnets?
• A Christmas Wedding in 1890
• Happy 100th Birthday to Dick Van Dyke! Did you know he was a Mayflower Descendant?

Good Morning Gloucester

• Join us in celebrating the fish city’s recognizably salty character with the 5th Annual Gloucester’s So Salty, a festival sponsored by the Cape Ann Museum in partnership with Discover Gloucester.
• A surprise sunset
• Maine Moments
• Bridge Construction
• Kings Roast Beef For Lunch

The Newburyport Blog

• Three Years Working on the Interactive Newburyport History Map
• Working with GridPlay Designs to Create the New Website History~Newburyport
• History ~ Newburyport, a new website about Newburyport’s stories
• Puzzles During a Stressful Time from the Newburyport Interactive History Map map.historynewburyport.com
• Ocean Mills – the Industrialization and the Expansion of the North End in the 1800s is on the Newburyport History Map

Streets of Salem

• Salem’s Centuries
• Finishing my 2025 Books
• The Woman Who Invented Christmas Decorating?
• Christmas Tipples
• Christmas in Salem 2025: Close to Home

Atlantic Black Box

• Event | Wabanaki REACH Program on 1/25
• Scarborough Historical Society Event | “Nimrod the Scarboro Slave” and Other Stories about Slavery in Maine with Eben Miller on 1/4/26
• In the news | ‘Rebranded plantations’: how empire shaped luxury Caribbean tourism
• Call for Papers: Slavery North to host a conference on slavery and border crossing during the American Revolution
• Connecticut Public Radio’s Still Here: Native American Resilience in New England

Portland House Stories

• 173-175 State Street & John Neal
• Apologies
• Glimpses. 121 Dartmouth Street
• Glimpses. 74 Neal Street
• By Request. 57-59 Deering Street