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The Immigrant Ship Saint John

      We all know the story of the Titanic, a ship travelling from England to New York City that sank in the Atlantic Ocean in 1912. That being said, very few people know about a shipwreck that happened sixty-three years earlier off the coast of…

The Last Pirates Executed in Boston

      It was a beautiful summer day in Havana, Cuba. The year was 1832. Captain Don Pedro Gilbert of Spain and his crew took their pirate ship the Panda out on the seven seas. While out at sea they spotted a brig called the Mexican, a cargo ship from…

The Nantucket Heart

      This is the story of Dr. Charles F. Winslow, more specifically of his death. Dr. Winslow was a doctor, lawyer, author, and avid traveler. He grew up in Nantucket, Massachusetts and spent a great deal of his life in Cambridge, Mass with his…