Local History

1+ week, 10+ hour ago   (118+ words) Visitors can explore the original Royal Worcester factory site on free guided tours during Heritage Open Days on September 12, 15 and 17. A free walking tour will offer visitors the chance to explore the original Royal Worcester factory site in Worcester. Museum…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (685+ words) ON this coming Friday 255 years ago, save counting on your fingers that’s September 11, 1771, the doors of Worcester Royal Infirmary opened for the first time. However, back then it wasn’t royal, neither was it the city’s first hospital. Worcester already had…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (40+ words) Springfield has welcomed the North American Festival of Wales for the first time, launching a five-day celebration of Welsh culture. Springfield has welcomed the North American Festival of Wales for the first time, launching a five-day celebration of Welsh culture....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (252+ words) (CAMBRIDGE, Md) – Throughout the month of September, local group Alpha Genesis will be honoring the abolition work of Harriet Tubman, highlighting everything she did on the Underground Railroad as well as the impact she’s had even to this day. The summit…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (116+ words) In the biographical horror drama 'Winchester', a haunted mansion is a key element of the narrative, but although it’s based on true events and the mansion actually exists, it wasn’t really possible to film there, so the expert help of…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (84+ words) The Cambridge City Council voted this month in favor of putting up a historical marker at the former home of Julia Child, the iconic chef who made her television debut on WGBH in the 1960s. Camberville Video Dispatch: Cambridge moves to…...

3+ week, 4+ hour ago   (944+ words) A misty, cloudy Saturday afternoon might well present a perfectly atmospheric time to visit Bancroft Tower. So it was on Aug. 22, when I joined a tour given by Preservation Worcester, for a rare look inside the tower. The tour revealed…...

3+ week, 9+ hour ago   (171+ words) Author Richard Hite, center, talks about the people who were accused of witchcraft during the Witchcraft History Walking Tour at First Burial Ground of North Andover. Most of those accused lived in Andover. Carol Majahad, former director of the North…...

3+ week, 13+ hour ago   (427+ words) At the far west end of Goleta sits a canyon that looks like the Goleta of old. Somehow untouched by the all-powerful developers, agriculture is still the order of the day and wildlife abounds. So, how did this beautiful canyon…...