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We are very excited to name Eleanor Mees, from Old North’s retail staff, as the August 2015 Employee of the Month! Eleanor has been working in…
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.…
This seasonal award is presented to an hourly Old North Foundation employee who exemplifies the highest staff standards and sets the bar in the…
Francis Shaw, who owned Pew #16 in the eighteenth century, was the great-great-grandfather of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw.
Francis Shaw was born…
This summer the church has high school Leadership Development interns! They started on July 6, and will be here for six weeks in total. During…
This seasonal award is presented to an hourly Old North Foundation employee who exemplifies the highest staff standards and sets the bar in the…
Writing to his wife Abigail in 1776, John Adams was convinced that Independence would—and should—be celebrated with a great anniversary…
By Mark Hurwitz
Abel Hale Coffin, Jr., a senior warden at Old North for ten years and owner of pew #18 in the mid-1800s, is connected to the…
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…