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This Old Pew: #72 – Gertrude Helen Bibbey, the Feminist Chicken Farmer

April 4, 2019 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

By Jodie Smith Have you heard someone say, “Perhaps I’ll quit my desk job, buy a small farm in the country, and spend my days tending to chickens, gardening, and baking pies”? According to NPR and the Washington Post, this is a twenty-first century phenomenon: twenty and thirty-something millennials seeking out organic, sustainable food and […]

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This Old Pew: #75 – Owen Richards: Unfortunate Customs Agent and British Loyalist

December 14, 2016 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

By Mark Hurwitz In the spring of 1768, John Hancock’s vessel, the Lydia, pulled into Boston Harbor after a transatlantic voyage. Suspected of smuggling tea and other cargo, the vessel became a target for two customs officials, Owen Richards and Robert Jackson. When the captain of the vessel informed John Hancock of their arrival, he […]

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This Old Pew: #23 and 38 – Captain Arthur Savage & the First Lion in America

September 26, 2016 by Guest Contributor 1 Comment

By Mark Hurwitz In 1718, Arthur Savage displayed the first exotic animal to set foot in the American colonies. He exhibited a male lion at his Brattle Street home where a hand painted sign declared, “The lion King of beasts is to be seen here.” Such a royal and commanding African animal surely would have […]

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This Old Pew: #30 – The Sword Dueling Phillips Family

June 15, 2016 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

By Mark Hurwitz The connections between families in 18th century Boston and subsequently their connections to Old North Church are truly fascinating. Take Gillam Phillips for instance. Through his life journey, he can be connected to Cotton Mather and Peter Faneuil, AND an illegal sword duel started by his brother Henry. And yes, he attend […]

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This Old Pew: #49 again – The Sounding Board

April 20, 2016 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

By Bernard Trubowitz Many visitors chuckle upon seeing the contents of pew 49, pointing to the large 1980s sound board and mixer that runs the church’s “modern” audio system and proclaiming “Look! The original colonial speakers!” Ironically, these visitors need only look up to find that they are nearly directly below the church’s real audio system: […]

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