Author Archives: rag57

      Readers of this history will likely be familiar with the famous 19th century painting by George Henry Boughton, which depicts a group of Pilgrims in a procession to the meeting house. The procession is led by two men with … Continue reading →

Chapter 1. An Unsettled Land New England was a haunted land before the first European settlers arrived in the early 1600’s. Native American trading relations with the Norse along the Charles and Taunton Rivers, as well as Mount Hope Bay, and Narragansett … Continue reading →

A Brief  Inquiry of  the Crookfall Brook and Woonsocket Reservoir Watershed.   Part I.   At a talk I gave recently at the Audubon Society in Bristol on “Rediscovering Places of Native American Memory”, I was approached by Tim Wynne, who enthusiastically … Continue reading →

Known Land, Foreign Tongue: Early European Attempts to Navigate the Algonquian Language. by Robert A. Geake For those who ventured out on the sailing voyage to America in the early to mid-  seventeenth century, there was a sense of a continent … Continue reading →

A talk given at the Audubon Society on February 26, 2012 In the closing years of the nineteenth century a tide of nostalgia seemed to sweep the nation. In American historiography, this was the second such wave that swept the public when … Continue reading →