by History By the Sea | Jan 9, 2019 | Blogs, The Kiosk
Spenser: For Hire scene in front of the West India Goods Store Spenser: For Hire (1985-1988) starring Robert Urich (Spenser) and Avery Brooks (Hawk) chronicled two fictional detectives as they solved crimes in the Greater Boston area. In Fall 1986, the show filmed in...
by History By the Sea | Dec 7, 2018 | Blogs, The Kiosk
Christmas in Salem, 2018 The Historic Derby Street Neighborhood (HDSN) consists of streets lining Derby Street, stretching from Hawthorne Boulevard to Block House Square. The neighborhood has strong ties to the maritime trade and many of its homes were built for the...
by Walk Boston History | Nov 26, 2018 | The Kiosk
During the first year of the Korean War, Lieutenant Thomas J. Hudner of Fall River, Massachusetts and Ensign Jesse Brown of Hattiesburg, Mississippi were U.S. Navy pilots assigned to the aircraft carrier Leyte. They were wingmen of the VF32nd squadron, flight K...
by Walk Boston History | Oct 11, 2018 | The Kiosk
“John Brown’s Body Lies A-Mouldering in the grave”[1] John Brown’s Harper Ferry Armory raid, October 16-18th, 1859, was 2 years in planning with Boston’s Secret Six. He was the madman; they were the...
by Walk Boston History | Oct 10, 2018 | The Kiosk
The Revere Family Bell of 1828, Donated by Messrs.’., Leavens and St John Jr, to the Methodist Church in Tuscaloosa, Alabama Abridged Genealogy:Joshua Bayley Leavens and Samuel St. John Jr, were intimately...
by History By the Sea | Oct 1, 2018 | Blogs, The Kiosk
Salem Magazine, Fall 2018 Accounting for historyOld Salem Savings Bank records gain interest with age “You meet the most interesting people in the archives of the Frederick E. Berry Library and Learning Commons at Salem State University. That’s where Jen...
