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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 […]

In 1873, Hiram Smith was entombed in a boulder carved by masons in the 1860s–they say Hiram wanted an above-ground

The Westford Academy mascot is the Grey Ghosts. The backstory of this Massachusetts mascot dates back to a Civil War-era

In 1875, Louis Prang produced America’s first mass-produced Christmas card in his Boston, Massachusetts, factory. In Episode 279 Jeff Belanger

In 1869 the schooner Charles Haskell out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, sank another fishing vessel during a fierce storm. In Episode

On April 21, 1977, four kids from Dover, Massachusetts, witnessed a strange creature that rose to international fame. In Episode

In 1683, Mary Webster of Hadley, Massachusetts, was found not-guilty of being a witch. Her neighbors still tried to hang

In July of 1692, Gloucester, Massachusetts, enemy soldiers and scouts spooked the town. Locals believed they weren’t men at all,