By Alexandra Moleski The story of the Women’s Guild founding and function demonstrates the ways in which the organization benefitted the institution of the church itself. However, in order to grasp the positive impact that the guild had on the Boston community, one must turn to the story of the House by the Side of […]
The Women of Old North: The Women’s Guild
By Alexandra Moleski Despite their support of the church throughout the first half of the twentieth century, the Women’s Guild of Old North remains relatively unknown in the modern historical narrative. From behind-the-scenes, the guild maintained the church and accompanying Parish House as a welcoming and homey place, as well as fundraised through various events, […]
Of Sailing Ships & Steeples
By Bernard Trubowitz Twelve years before immortalizing Paul Revere with pen and paper, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow began a different poem with the following lines: Build me straight, O worthy Master!Staunch and strong, a goodly vesselThat shall laugh at all disaster,And with wave and whirlwind wrestle! It is quite appropriate that the man who wrote a […]
Symbol of America’s Origin Story: The Old North Church
By Rob Super In 1975 as part of the celebration of the United States Bicentennial, President Gerald Ford lit the “Third Lantern,” a lantern that still hangs in Old North Church’s sanctuary, to commemorate the hanging of the signal lanterns on the night of April 18, 1775. President Ford remarked that Two hundred years ago […]
Beneath Boston
By Erin Driscoll Chan Krieger and Associates “Boston Over Time: Filling In the Land 1630-Present,” 2008. For thousands of years before Europeans arrived, Native Americans lived on the narrow 800-acre Shawmut Peninsula. As illustrated in “Boston Over Time: Filling In the Land 1630-Present,” much of modern Boston rests on nearly 5,000 acres of added land, […]