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The wreck of the Ada K. Damon at Steep Hill Beach at The Trustees' Crane Estate, Ipswich, March 16, 2024. (©Greg Cook photo)
Nature Greg CookMarch 22, 2024 0

Century-Old Shipwreck Emerges From Sand At Ipswich’s Crane Beach

In February, pieces of a century-old shipwreck began emerging from the sand at the northwest end of Ipswich’s Crane Beach—a jagged, 50-foot-long fragment of the starboard side of schooner’s wooden…Continue Reading →

Gary Gregory of the Printing Office of Edes & Gill, in the 1715 Clough House o the campus of Boston's Old North Church, Aug. 13, 2023. (©Greg Cook photo)
Books Greg CookSeptember 5, 2023 0

At Boston’s Old North Church, Reprinting The Dangerous Ideas That Sparked A Revolution

Though the first printing press was imported from Europe into the Americas around 1554, to Mexico City, and Harvard got the first printing press in the English colonies in 1639,…Continue Reading →

"The Age of Roe: The Past, Present, and Future of Abortion in America" at Harvard Radcliffe Institute Schlesinger Library's Poorvu Gallery.
Art Greg CookJanuary 24, 2023 0

‘Age of Roe’ Surveys Activism For And Against Legal Abortion In U.S.

“The Age of Roe: The Past, Present, and Future of Abortion in America” at Harvard Radcliffe Institute Schlesinger Library’s Poorvu Gallery in Cambridge from Oct. 24, 2022, to March 4,…Continue Reading →

Old Sturbridge Village, Oct. 30, 2022. (© Greg Cook photo)
History Greg CookDecember 7, 2022 0

At Old Sturbridge Village, 1830s America Comes Alive With Chickens, Sheep, Cows, Pigs

Part of the fun of an old timey living-history museum like Old Sturbridge Village is the feeling that you’ve stepped off a time machine into the past—in this case, peacetime…Continue Reading →

Marker on Beale Street in Quincy marking Anne Hutchinson's home where she "tarried" on her way to exile in 1638. (©Greg Cook photo)
History Greg CookOctober 16, 2021 0

Where Anne Hutchinson Stopped On Her Way To Exile

In April 1638, Anne Hutchinson, the Boston midwife and spiritual leader, was exiled by court order and “tarried” at her family’s home in what’s now Quincy on her way to…Continue Reading →

Re-installing the repaired 1726 Avery-Bennett clock at Boston's Old North Church on June 16, 2021. (Courtesy Old North Church & Historic Site)
Art Greg CookJuly 19, 2021 0

Fixing The Nearly 300-Year-Old Clock Inside Boston’s Old North Church

A clock shaped a bit like an exclamation point, with a bronze sun shining at the center of its black face, has kept time inside Boston’s Old North Church since…Continue Reading →

Mount Misery in Lincoln, Massachusetts, March 26, 2020. (Greg Cook photo)
Nature Greg CookMarch 28, 2020 0

The View From Mount Misery in Lincoln, Massachusetts

The first article in Wonderland’s series about Miserable Places: At 227 acres, Mount Misery is considered to be the largest conservation area in Lincoln, Massachusetts. When we arrived on a…Continue Reading →

During World War II, a German Luftwaffe Heinkel He 111 bomber flys over the East End of London at the start of the Luftwaffe's evening raids on Sept. 7, 1940. (German Air Force photographer / Public Domain)
Books Greg CookMarch 28, 2020 0

Erik Larson’s ‘The Splendid And The Vile’: Churchill And Leadership During A National Calamity

As best-selling historian Erik Larsons’ new World War II book “The Splendid and the Vile” (Crown Publishing) opens, the military forces of Nazi Germany are rolling over France and the…Continue Reading →

Lewis Wickes Hine, "The Dumps" Turned into a Playground, Boston, 1909. (Courtesy Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum)
Design Greg CookAugust 7, 2019 0

With New York’s Central Park And Boston’s Emerald Necklace, Frederick Law Olmsted Imagined Democratic Utopias

“Big Plans: Picturing Social Reform,” at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum from June 20 to Sept. 15, 2019, looks back a century and a half ago to a moment of…Continue Reading →

Constructing an Essex clamming skiff at the Essex Historical Society and Shipbuilding Museum in Essex, April 26, 2018. (Greg Cook)
Design Greg CookMay 17, 2019 0

A Century After They Built The Last Known Essex Clamming Skiff, Constructing A New One

NOTE: I’ve been commissioned by the Essex County Community Foundation to help document/promote cultural projects from its Creative County Initiative, which is supported by Boston’s Barr Foundation.  On a damp…Continue Reading →

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