by The Junto | Jul 14, 2020 | The Kiosk
Photograph in Charles Knowles Bolton, The Private Soldier Under Washington, New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1902, p. 162 and detail from The Surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga, October 16, 1777, Yale University Art Gallery. The following post is a guest post...
by History By the Sea | Jul 7, 2020 | The Kiosk
7 Curtis Street, 1985 (MACRIS SAL.2569)Historic Salem, Inc. House History – 7 Curtis StreetHoratio B. Perry Gunsmith and his wife Sarah Ashton Built c. 1856The address of Seven Curtis Street is first listed in the city directory in 1857, when it was owned by...
by History By the Sea | Jun 15, 2020 | The Kiosk
A collection of memoirs written by Salemites that have been digitized and made accessible online.A half century in Salem, 1887Marianne Cabot Devereaux SilsebeeChestnut street 40 years ago, 1938James Duncan PhillipsDiary of William Bentley. 1905-1914Rev. William...
by Arlington Historical Society | May 7, 2020 | The Kiosk
In Nina Winn’s diary entry for May 7, 1922, she wrote of visiting Mount Pleasant Cemetery and viewing the grave of her close friend since childhood, Vida Damon, where a marker had been installed recently. Nina wrote: “Saw Vida’s stone—very severe and...
by The Junto | May 5, 2020 | The Kiosk
A special edition of #ColonialCouture, a Junto roundtable on fashion as history in early American life. The Antigua-born Penelope Royall Vassall (masked and socially distanced), Joseph Blackburn, circa 1755, Massachusetts Historical Society Protective face...
by Arlington Historical Society | May 1, 2020 | The Kiosk
MAY 1, 1955: DIAL TELEPHONES DEBUT IN ARLINGTON If self-dial telephone service in Arlington were a person, it would just now be eligible for Medicare. Today is the 65th anniversary of dial technology coming to the homes and businesses of the town. ...
