Nothing says Thanksgiving like turkey, football, and pilgrims. We took care of the turkey bits at Mammoth Cave National Park and the football at Wyoming’s Fossil Butte National Monument. (See Below) But what about the pilgrims? Through vociferous readings of our website we are sure that you know that there is no National Park Site [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Massachusetts’
Thanksgiving Week: Salem Maritime National Historic Site
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Appropriation of History, Bewitched, Commercialization, Massachusetts, Puritans, Thanksgiving, Witch Trials on November 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Harry Potter Week: Longfellow National Historic Site
Posted in National Historic Site, tagged Boston, Harry Potter, Massachusetts on July 25, 2007 | 2 Comments »
In recognition of the 8.3 million Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows books sold last weekend, this week we are looking at National Park Sites that honor authors. On Monday we imagined the new Harry Potter book as written by America’s only Nobel Prize for Literature winning playwright: Eugene O’Neill. Today we see Harry through [...]
Longfellow National Historic Site
Posted in National Historic Site, tagged Boston, Cambridge, Georgian Architecture, House Tour, Mansion, Massachusetts, Poet, Victorian Era, Writer on July 29, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Cambridge, Mass.
Visited: July 28, 2006
NPS Site Visited: 321 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
The quintessential American poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, lived in this yellow Georgian mansion from 1837 to 1882. The house also served as temporary headquarters for George Washington during the Revolutionary War.
BEAUTY (2/10)
In the 1800’s painting your house a blandish yellow equated [...]
Salem Maritime National Historic Site
Posted in National Historic Site, tagged Boats, Commerce, Economic History, Massachusetts, Sailing, Salem, Witch Trials on April 16, 2004 | 2 Comments »
Salem, Mass.
Visited: April 16, 2004
NPS Site Visited: 24 of 353
NPS Website
WHAT IS IT?
Second largest port in the colonies in the 18th and early 19th centuries. So many boats bore the name of Salem, that Eastern countries thought “Salem” was a nation to itself.
Salem is also the site of the most horrific witch hunt in the [...]
