Tagged: History

Peter Drummey, Chief Historian & Stephen T. Riley Librarian for the Massachusetts Historical Society, discusses how Christmas came to be famously banned in Boston.  

Evan O’Brien, Creative Director of the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum, spoke with WATD’s Dan McCready about events being held on Saturday to commemorate the 250th Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. 

Richard Pickering, Deputy Director at Plimoth Patuxet Museums, spoke with WATD’s Dan McCready about “The Story of Thanksgiving” and other events at the museum. 

WATD Political Analyst John Creed speaks with Dan McCready about the 60th Anniversary of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy.  

Plymouth County Register of Deeds John Buckley gives WATD’s Christine James a look at the real estate numbers in Plymouth County.

Author and historian Anthony Sammarco discussed his book “Halloween Traditions In Boston” during a recent visit to the Thomas Crane Library in Quincy.

Plymouth County Register of Deeds John Buckley speaks with WATD’s Christine James about the latest real estate numbers in Plymouth County.

Peter Drummey, Chief Historian & Stephen T. Riley Librarian, speaks with WATD’s Dan McCready about Independence Day observances and how one Founding Father thought it should be on another date.  

The Forbes House Museum in Milton held a community reading of Frederick Douglass’s “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”

Peter Drummey, Chief Historian & Stephen T. Riley Librarian for the Massachusetts Historical Society, speaks with WATD’s Dan McCready about the historical origins of Juneteenth.