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Events (the Local News)

• Spooktacular happenings: Your guide to Halloween events in Ipswich 
• Hundreds of Winthrop students take a collective bite out of fall 
• Orchestra on the Hill to spotlight Cambodian culture in weekend events
• Kassner, Kelly face off at Ipswich candidates’ forum 
• Rowley library launches Halloween costume drive

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

• Does a dearth of Mass. Senate candidates point to a democracy deficit? 
• Vanishing gas stations and rising oil prices point to a future China is embracing 
• Rep. Kassner has a command of all things aquatic as she sails towards election day 
• Likable Ed Sheeran finds himself in a real pickle – a kosher dill 
• Is Secretary of War Pete Hegseth our modern-day Manchurian candidate? 

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Ipswich River Watershed Association (IRWA)

• Hood Pond BioBlitz – perfect weather, great people, and so many trees!
• Celebrating the Volunteers Behind the Scenes
• 2 Herring vs. 32,788: What’s Happing on the Ipswich River?
• From Camper to Counselor: One Intern’s Journey Back
• Beyond the Riverbank: Interns Learn the Art of Advocacy

Historical Nerdery

• A Call to Action – Protect Lexington's Battlefield Landscape
• "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

Journal of the American Revolution

• My Family Arrived at this Place: A Loyalist Ranger’s Road from Saratoga
• Freedom Round the Globe: A World History of the American Revolution
• Trade, Land, Speculation: William Kerin Constable in the Age of Revolution
• David Steele’s Macabre Medal
• The Loyalist Experience and Aftermath in Revolutionary Philadelphia

New England Historical Society

Nutfield Genealogy

• A Sailing Ship for Weathervane Wednesday
• Myles Standish's boots – A very weird roadside attraction
• A Visit to Saratoga National Historical Park
• My Loyalist Ancestors – Benjamin Thompson AKA Count Rumford
• A Visit to Fort Ticonderoga

Good Morning Gloucester

• Time to Save the Date
• Maine Moments
• Surfside Subs WICKED WEDNESDAY IS HERE! 🍕🍁
• Halloween Events Coming Up
• Tuesday GHS Scoreboard

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

• Matthew Stickney had a very good eye
• Nova Scotia/Acadia/ Mi’kma’ki
• Captain Lightfoot
• Poetry for the Worst Day of the Salem Witch Trials
• Elephants in the Rain

Atlantic Black Box

• Interco(a)stal: Reading Between the Ribs of Maine’s Maritime History
• Castine Historical Society Event | Castine, Penobscot Bay, and Global Slavery in the Age of Sail with Dr. Kate McMahon on 10/15/26
• The Third Place Event | Waves of Tears, Winds of Hope | A Solo Performance by Antonio Rocha
• In the news | The amateur archivists racing to save US history in national parks against Trump administration censorship
• ✮ Introducing Interco(a)stal ✮

Portland House Stories

• 727 Congress Street Part 2
• 727 Congress Street Part 1
• Redux. 137 Emery Street
• Glimpses. 9 Everett Street
• 78 Winter Street