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Tag: John Greenleaf Whittier

The Legend of Goody Cole

November 21, 2025December 16, 2025 Gordon Harris5 Comments

Some said that Goody Cole took the shapes of eagles, dogs, cats and apes. At last she lay under sentence of death in the Ipswich jail for changing a child in its cradle.

Posted in LegendsTagged 1680, John Greenleaf Whittier, witches, women

Ipswich as Described by John Greenleaf Whittier

March 19, 2024January 5, 2025 Gordon Harris6 Comments

"This is Ipswich...one of those steady conservative villages of which a few are still left in New England. There is not a better preserved or pleasanter specimen of a Puritan town."

Posted in StoriesTagged John Greenleaf Whittier

© Gordon Harris 2025

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