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In 1862, George W. Harwood of North Brookfield enlisted for three years with the 36th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers. This book is the collection of letters he wrote home. His regiment traveled with the 9th Corps under General Ambrose E. Burnside through MD, VA, KY, MS, and TN. The 9th Corps was sometimes referred to […]
Su Shi (1037-1101) is widely regarded as one of the most accomplished figures in Chinese Literature. Join us for this fascinating program highlighting the life of the Chinese calligrapher, essayist, gastronome, pharmacologist, poet, politician, and travel writer during the Song dynasty. Dr. Fields is a history professor who taught at California State University at San […]
The USS Bunker Hill was an aircraft carrier which saw extensive action in the Pacific during World War Two. Built in Quincy, MA and launched one year after the attack on Pearl Harbor, she would be the victim of Kamikaze attacks off Okinawa on May 11,1945. Suffering heavy casualties and damage, her crew would keep […]
From 1854 to 1929, over 200,000 children were transported by train from New York to the Midwest and beyond and adopted by new families. The program was organized by reformers in New York in an attempt to both remove them from the squalor and poverty of the city and help provide labor for farms out […]