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Massachusetts

Podcast: New Bedford Whaling Museum

For 20 years, a whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the Massachusetts museum where it hangs.

The Podcast Team December 13, 2023

George Jacobs, whose witchcraft trial is shown here in Thomkins H. Matteson's 1855 painting, was one of 19 people hanged as a witch during the 1692 Salem witch trials.

The Salem Witch Trials Actually Happened in Danvers, Massachusetts

Tensions between Salem and Danvers were there from the start—contributing to the ensuing witch hysteria.

Theresa McKinney October 26, 2023

Myles Standish and his fellow Puritans crashing the festivities at Merrymount.

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America's First Banned Book Really Ticked Off the Plymouth Puritans

The author, known as the "Lord of Misrule," had the audacity to erect a maypole in Massachusetts.

Matthew Taub November 1, 2019

An early 20th century Smith College netball team.

The Surprising Massachusetts Origins of Nearly Every American Sport

A 100-mile stretch of the state claims to have come up with baseball, basketball, candlepin bowling, and more.

Cara Giaimo August 26, 2016

The 'Betty Crocker House' Is For Sale

It was built in 1681.

Eric Grundhauser July 29, 2016

The Alarmed Emails Residents Sent Over the Island for Rattlesnakes

Lots of emails.

JPat Brown June 17, 2016

New Bedford, Massachusetts

The Oozing Whale Skeleton of New Bedford

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

Cash For Your Warhol, Inman Square's newest fake business.

An Afternoon At Boston's Newest Parody Storefront, 'Cash For Your Warhol'

Cara Giaimo January 25, 2016

FOUND: A Pre-Civil War Shipwreck on a Massachusetts Beach

Sarah Laskow May 11, 2015