Maggie Meahl Jul 81 minField Trip: Three-Quarter Cape Cod HouseSome people say that if you want to be a serious writer you have to say "no" to friends, parties, family, etc. I just can't seem to do...
Maggie Meahl Jul 17, 20232 minField Trip: Connecticut Museum of Culture and History and the Samuel Huntington Homestead MuseumRecently I had the chance to go down to Connecticut to do some more research at the newly-re-branded Connecticut Museum of Culture and...
Maggie Meahl Jan 5, 20225 minSachem Uncas, the Mohegan and Norwich in the Seventeenth CenturyIt is not right to write about the speed in which the English Puritans were settling Connecticut (and profiting from the land) without...
Maggie Meahl Oct 9, 20213 minWhat the Simon Huntington, Jr. House Might Have Looked Like Inside Recently, I had the pleasure of visiting The White-Ellery House, c. 1710, located at the end of Route 128, right off the rotary, across...
Maggie Meahl Sep 27, 20213 minSimon Huntington, Jr.(1659-1736) and Lydia Gager Huntington(1663-1737): Pious BartendersSimon Huntington, Jr. (1659-1736) and Lydia Gager Huntington (1663-1737) are perhaps a good representation of successful third generation...
Maggie Meahl Apr 1, 20213 minMargaret Barrett Huntington Stoughton (1595-1665): Daily Life in 1636 Matianuck/Windsor, CTThis is an updated post on Margaret. I will be speaking about her next Saturday, August 3, 2024 at The Huntington Homestead Museum at 1...
Maggie Meahl Jan 25, 20212 minField Trip: The Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CTMotherhood continues to take priority over my research and writing. It frustrates me, but I feel my young adult children do need me...
Maggie Meahl Jul 24, 20202 minRattlesnakes, Norwich, and Simon Huntington IVIt's been over a month since my last post. The pandemic has definitely stifled my writing impulses due to loss of routine, everyone at...
Maggie Meahl Jun 16, 20202 minApple Orchards, the Reverend John Eliot and 1633 Roxbury, MAIt is hard to overestimate how important seeds, tree grafts, and plant specimens were to the Puritans who came to Massachusetts Bay...