A live podcast event with Anngelle Wood, host of Crime of the Truest Kind Crime of the Truest Kind host Anngelle Wood traverses the dusky history of the North Shore’s rocky coast – and what lies beyond its shoreline. Through local lore, ghost ships, sunken vessels, disappearances, unresolved crimes, and the stories of those who may have been forgotten, this …
SALEM — Before the Twinkie, when foodstuffs were prone to decay and fodder for bacterial free-for-alls, colonists miraculously survived dinnertimes. Or maybe miracles had nothing to do with it. In the time before refrigerators, colonists employed ingenious albeit labor-intensive methods of food preservation. Practices like churning butter, sugaring and salting cut back on waste and sustained human life from one …
Educator Mike Welsh demonstrates how early carpenters relied on skill, ingenuity and an assortment of hand tools. SALEM — The house you’re living in now may well have been built more than a century or two ago — before power tools, sheetrock or foam insulation. If you’ve ever wondered how early carpenters were able to create works of lasting elegance …
