Motherhood continues to take priority over my research and writing. It frustrates me, but I feel my young adult children do need me...

Recently, on a damp and cloudy New England winter day (typical!), I decided to pay a visit to the Peabody Essex Museum's (PEM) exhibit on...

Margaret Baret Huntington stepped off the Atlantic galleon Elizabeth Bonaventura II on or around June 15, 1633. She had arrived in North...

Hagar Mingo was born sometime in September 1799 to Nelly, an enslaved woman owned by Major General Jedediah Huntington (1743-1818) and...

It's been over a month since my last post. The pandemic has definitely stifled my writing impulses due to loss of routine, everyone at...

It is hard to overestimate how important seeds, tree grafts, and plant specimens were to the Puritans who came to Massachusetts Bay...

Recently, while procrastinating on my research and writing on Margaret Barret Huntington Stoughton (MBHS), Seventeenth-century Puritan...

Really enjoyed reporting on just a few of the many North Shore garden clubs, and all the volunteer work they do. Check out it on page...

This is a re-post from 2020, updated and edited. Is there a better time to dig into a writing project than during a pandemic when you are...

This book had so much promise: great cover, famous author name, the word “house” in the title, and a jacket blurb to bait American...