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Events (the Local News)

• Third annual Make Way for Chucklings Walk to be held on Little Neck Aug. 9
• Rowley students take the stage in Firehouse production of ‘School of Rock — The Musical’
• Meet the authors of ‘Four Old Men Writing Together,’ a humorous and deeply personal memoir collection
• Manchester Summer Chamber Music celebrates 15th season with August concerts
• ‘Giant Candy Land’ brings classic board game to life at Ipswich Public Library

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

Gavin Keenan

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

Bob Waite

• Lite Waite: When it comes to putting living politicians’ faces on stamps or coins, blame Silent Cal
• Lite Waite: Dan Kelly wants you to know he is fed up, but do voters have an appetite for change?
• Lite Waite: It takes a village of volunteers to keep abandoned guinea pigs safe and secure
• Lite Waite: How attending Boys State taught me that politics is a contact sport
• Lite Waite: Much as in 1976, the impending appearance of Sail Boston’s Tall Ships will lift spirits

Read more columns by Bob Waite

Ipswich River Watershed Association (IRWA)

• Summer Intern Spotlight: Water Use by the Numbers
• Parker-Ipswich-Essex-Rivers Partnership Awarded $150,000 to Advance Regional Restoration
• History Repeating: What a 1984 Sewage Crisis Can Teach Us Today
• Source to Sea: One Day, One River, Endless Possibilities
• From RStudio to the River: My Summer with IRWA

Historical Nerdery

• "We Know Their Names" – The Official Muster Roll of All Known Militia Men from Captain John Parker's Company, 1775
• "These Were Present When the Roll Was Called" – The Role of Company Clerks Within a Massachusetts Militia Company
• “This company had been instructed in military manoeuvres by an English deserter who is still living in H____” – What Became of George Marsden after 1775?
• "Blocked Our Harbor Up" – Essex County, the Royal Navy and Harassment of the Coastline in 1775
• "No. 16, passing into possession of Thomas Hancock" – How Many Hancock Souls Were Laid to Rest in Tomb 16?

Journal of the American Revolution

• Fort Watauga and the 1776 Cherokee Siege
• Gotthold Frederick Enslin: A Life Rebuilt
• Backcountry Resistance: South Carolina’s Militia and the Fight for American Independence
• Jefferson & the Crucible of Peaceable Coercions
• Nelson and Blueskin: Washington’s Revolutionary War Horses in the Documentary Record

New England Historical Society

• Paul Revere Helped Organize the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association
• Samuel Morey Invented the Steamboat. Then Watched Robert Fulton Steal His Ideas.
• How Lovell General Hospital Helped Transform Civil War Medicine
• Charles Stearns Wheeler: Emerson’s Forgotten Collaborator
• The Connecticut Serial Killer Who Was Finally Caught at Age 73

Nutfield Genealogy

• Wachau Valley, Danube River, Austria for Weathervane Wednesday
• The 136th Locke Family Association Reunion
• Matthias Church on the Castle Hill in Budapest, Hungary for Weathervane Wednesday
• "Our Lady Beneath the Chain" for Weathervane Wednesday
• Seventeen Years of the Nutfield Genealogy Blog

Good Morning Gloucester

• 2027 Calendar Now Available
• Music on Harbor Loop
• Milky Way, the way we saw it as kids
• A stop after work
• Maine Moments

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

• The Salem Seal and Social History
• Salem’s Quadricentennial Parade
• Summer Reading 2026
• Pen to Flag
• The Bryant Homestead

Atlantic Black Box

• In the news | The amateur archivists racing to save US history in national parks against Trump administration censorship
• ✮ Introducing Interco(a)stal ✮
• Voices of Independence: Marblehead in the Revolution
• Slavery North Conference | Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border Crossing During the American Revolution 7/12/26
• Prince Project Event | Uncovering Free and Enslaved Blacks from Maine Who Served in the American Revolution on 5/3/26 and 5/19/26

Portland House Stories

• 78 Winter Street
• By Request: 127 Pleasant Street
• Glimpses. 12 Madison Street
• By Request: 140 Eastern Promenade / 1-7 Wilson Street
• 147 Pine Street