1953 – Historic Ipswich

“At Long last, Sir, Have You Left No Sense of Decency?”

November 20, 2025February 22, 2026 Gordon Harris3 Comments

Joseph Mccarthy: "I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five people that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party."

On June 9, 1954, before a nationwide television audience, Joseph Welch of Waltham replied to Joseph McCarthy, "Until this moment, Senator, I think I have never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness."

The Bull Brook Paleo-Indian Discovery

November 18, 2025February 22, 2026 Gordon Harris10 Comments

The Ipswich discovery of PaleoIndian artifacts at Bull Brook

in the early 1950s, a group of young amateur archeologists men discovered one of the largest Paleo-Indian sites in North America along the banks of Bull Brook and the Egypt River in Ipswich, with over 6,000 artifacts uncovered.