Nine years after he wrote a poem honoring the Christiana Riot and the brave Lancaster Countians who fought against slavery, poet John Greenleaf Whittier immortalized yet another local person in 1864 ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Yesterday I wrote about the patriotic myth of “Paul Revere’s Ride,” ...

Notes: Few passers-by notice a granite marker on Cider Hill Road (Route 91) that identifies the spot where John Greenleaf Whittier in 1854 encountered a young farm girl in bare feet raking hay, which ...

The poet John Greenleaf Whittier of Haverhill and Amesbury, Massachusetts, spent many a summer on the New Hampshire Seacoast. Well-acquainted with its natural beauty, history, and local legends, he ...

I don’t recall how I knew of the John Greenleaf Whittier poem “Barbara Frietchie” in June of 1967. After all, there was no Google then. But I do recall using its two most memorable lines in my ...

“The worth of the man blending with the worth of the life he portrayed, independent of all considerations of art, has won for him the admiration and affection of the common people.” The time has come ...

HAVERHILL — It took Gus Reusch more than three months to grow the Quaker-style beard he needed to authentically portray poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier. The growth was full enough in ...

Step back in time this summer at The John Greenleaf Whittier Home, 86 Friend St., Amesbury. Meet "Susannah Martin" of Amesbury on the 327 th anniversary of her hanging as a witch, enjoy a "Summer Tea ...