Podcast 329 – When Longfellow Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
On Christmas morning of 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow found his hope renewed in the morning church bells while nursing his […]
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Podcast 326 – Thanksgiving at Alice’s Restaurant
In 1965 Arlo Guthrie came to Stockbridge, Massachusetts, with a friend. They dumped some garbage, got arrested, and made a
Podcast 321 – From the 9th Hole to the Moon in Auburn
In 1926, Robert Goddard launched the world’s first liquid-fueled rocket from a farm in Auburn, Massachusetts. In Episode 321 Jeff
Podcast 315 – The Other Borden Murders
In 1848 Eliza Darling Borden murdered two of her children and then herself in the Second Street, Fall River, Massachusetts,
Podcast 309 – The Westford Knight
On the side of the road in Westford, Massachusetts, sits a carved stone and memorial to a medieval knight said
Podcast 303 – Hunting the Egopantis of Shirley
In the late 1700s Capt. Smith of Shirley, Massachusetts, shot and killed the last of the Egopantis–a giant monster of
Podcast 297 – Timothy Dexter: An Idiot Who Failed Upward
In the late 18th century, Lord Timothy Dexter of Newburyport, Massachusetts, made a serious of business blunders that should have
Podcast 291 – A Stone Tomb to Avoid the Devil
In 1873, Hiram Smith was entombed in a boulder carved by masons in the 1860s–they say Hiram wanted an above-ground