Transcription of an article that first appeared in the Standard-Times in March 1944. One of the notable anniversaries this year - one in...

Just in case you missed the Zoom presentation on February 16, with Helen Frink, you can watch it here! In 1860 fourteen-year-old...

In February of 1906, Willam E. Bolles sat down and jotted down some of his memories of being a boy and growing up in Mattapoisett....

How many of you have had brown bread in a can? Have you ever asked yourself why there is even such a thing as bread in a can? Well, we...

For a century the Mattapoisett water tower stood atop the hill at the intersection of North and Park Streets. Built in 1913, it brought...

This article originally appeared in the July 2021 issue of The Crow's Nest. Mellie Masterson stood in nearly constructed Carriage House...

The statue of Massasoit by the American sculptor Cyrus Edwin Dallin in Plymouth, Massachusetts, was completed in 1921 to mark the...

The following account first appeared in the Knickerbocker Magazine and was printed in the Republican Standard of August 6, 1857. Captain...

"November is Native American Heritage Month. What started at the turn of the century as an effort to gain a day of recognition for the...

Priscilla Richmond was widowed and living alone. Her home, which was located on present day Foster Street, was described as being on “the...

Of the many personalities that stand out in the 331 years of Mattapoisett’s history, perhaps that of Joseph Meigs is one of the more...

Every kid of a certain age dreamed of running away with the circus. Short of hopping on a train and sleeping with the elephants I lived...

How did people in the Tri-Town area, particularly Mattapoisett, experience the AIDS crisis? To examine this question, I looked through...

The Charles W. Morgan, the only surviving American wooden whaling ship, was commissioned by Charles Wahn Morgan and built at Jethro and...

My name is Noah, I’m a rising junior at Smith College (majoring in anthropology with a concentration in museum studies), and I’ve been...

Origins Founded in 1971, Bent Twig was an alternative school started by UMass Amherst graduate students who were working on degrees in...