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Tuesday, October 27, 2026

The Gundalow Piscataqua in Portsmouth, New Hampshire

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  What is a gundalow?  It is a flat bottomed cargo barge once common on the Piscataqua River and in the nearby rivers of New Hampshire and M...
Thursday, October 22, 2026

A Search for Descendants of the Men featured on the America's Tapestry New Hampshire

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 The needleworkers who created the America's Tapestry panel for the colony of New Hampshire for the 250th anniversary of the Revolutiona...
Tuesday, October 20, 2026

The Myles Standish Homestead in Duxbury, Massachusetts

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SITE OF THE HOMESTEAD OF CAPTAIN MYLES STANDISH THE MILITARY LEADER OF  PLYMOUTH COLONY HERE STOOD THE HOUSE WHERE CAPTAIN MYLES STANDISH LI...
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Wednesday, October 14, 2026

A Sailing Ship for Weathervane Wednesday

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 This unique weathervane was photographed in Duxbury, Massachusetts Whilst wandering around Duxbury, Massachusetts to visit the historical s...
Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Myles Standish's boots - A very weird roadside attraction

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  On a clear day with blue skies on 26 August 1922, lightning struck the statue of Captain Myles Standish on the tower in Myles Standish Mon...
Tuesday, September 22, 2026

A Visit to Saratoga National Historical Park

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  The Visitor Center for Saratoga National Historic Park Last month we wandered over to New York state to visit Fort Ticonderoga and the Sar...
Tuesday, September 15, 2026

My Loyalist Ancestors - Benjamin Thompson AKA Count Rumford

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  The Count Rumford birthplace in Woburn, Massachusetts This is the second blog post on a Loyalist ancestor I have written this year for the...
Tuesday, September 8, 2026

A Visit to Fort Ticonderoga

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  Last month we drove over to Fort Ticonderoga, taking the ferry from Vermont.  I had contacted the museum archives about an ancestor who ha...