Living someplace old and historic, like the Boston area, brings both perils and joys. Among its current perils is the decaying subway system...

Today is a beautiful sunny day, but I'm sitting inside the house reading about demonic possession in colonial New England. I'm fasci...

Boston is one of the oldest cities in America. It was first settled by the Puritans in 1630, and downtown Boston has some fine old cemeterie...

Christmas fast approaches, bringing with it Santa Claus, presents, eggnog and... dancing witches?  As I mentioned in a recent post, the Puri...

Chloe Russell was born in 1745, about three hundred miles southwest of Sierra Leone. At the age of nine she captured by slave traders, broug...

It's October, so let's take a tour. No, not a foliage tour - a tour of Lovecraft country. We've been watching Lovecraft Country ...

On May 2, 1687, Joseph Beacon was sound asleep in his Boston, Massachusetts home when suddenly someone appeared in his bedroom. It was 5:00 ...

With the COVID-19 pandemic I haven't been taking any long road trips to visit strange places. I've been exploring closer to home, th...

Following up from last week's post, here's another interesting story from the John Winthrop's journal. Winthrop was one of the e...

Boston is a modern city. It's home to world-class universities, tech companies and a highly-educated workforce. New office towers and co...

Maybe I'm stating the obvious, but Boston is a very Irish town. Our basketball team is the Celtics, and you can buy Red Sox hats embl...

I have been a little under the weather this week, but last weekend I did stroll to Boston's North End to visit Copp's Hill Burying G...