Suzanne DeWitt
Suzanne DeWitt Hall is a former high tech journalist and Internet marketing business owner who now works on writing the great American novel. She is mildly obsessed with vintage cookbooks, recipe boxes and the intersection of sexuality and theology. She lives blissfully in Newburyport with her partner, a cat named Chicken and a wire fox terrier. You can reach her through her website, SMDeWitt.com.
Entertainment icon and supercrooner Robert Goulet was born in Lawrence in 1933. He lived in the city’s Tower Hill neighborhood until he was 13.
Read Story →Community cookbooks are time capsules in print, capturing eras, locations, and sometimes even subcultures. They also can make you giggle.
Read Story →Hasty pudding is a slow-cooked concoction of corn meal, milk, eggs, molasses and spices. Perfect for the cold weather, with rich historical roots.
Read Story →In a region as old as ours, reports of hauntings are plentiful. And when there are ghosts, there are sure to be people who hunt them.
Read Story →The story of Helen Keller and herteacher has its roots in the MV. A sculpture in Tewksbury depicts Anne Sullivan teaching Helen her first miraculous word.
Read Story →Did you know that the world’s strongest man lived right here in the Valley? Cyprien-Noé (Louis) Cyr apparently got his strength from his mother’s side.
Read Story →Andover’s Lanam Club was established in 1957 by a group of businessmen and named to reflect the region: L for Lawrence, A for Andover, NA…
Read Story →Did you ever wonder why animal shelters used to be called pounds? The structures were used to house animals that wandered around getting into trouble.
Read Story →Helen Gertrude Swasey was well known in her hometown of Haverhill from the time she was a young girl until her death in 1934. She was…
Read Story →Haverhill’s hometown heroes tend to have a little badass in them – Andre Dubus III and Rob Zombie for example. Hannah Duston certainly was one in the 1600s.
Read Story →Adventureland in Newbury opened the summer of 1957. A map of the amusement park shows its position on the corner of U.S. Route 1 and Scotland Road,…
Read Story →Stop by the Emma L. Andrews Library & Community Center in Newburyport and experience how libraries used to work. You won’t find bar codes or…
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