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By Mark Hurwitz
Peter Mash was born in Germany in 1783, immigrated to the United States at the turn of the 19th century, and moved to Boston…
On this day in 1954, the steeple of the Old North Church blew down—for the SECOND time! In 1954, the culprit was Hurricane…
Each year a specially selected group of newly commissioned Chief Petty Officers (CPOs) participate in Heritage Week at Charlestown Navy Yard.…
Francis Shaw, who owned Pew #16 in the eighteenth century, was the great-great-grandfather of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw.
Francis Shaw was born…
By Mark Hurwitz
Major Leonard Vassall, the owner of pews #10 and 11, was born in Jamaica in 1678. Before he moved to Boston in the early…
Capt. Daniel Malcolm was born in Boston in the 1720s. He lived on Fleet Street and attended the Old North Church. He served as a Junior Warden…
Mars Honors Advancements in Chocolate History Research and Scholarship at the Annual Colonial Chocolate Society Meeting
Mars Honors Advancements…