Trailblazing teacher, dedicated nurse and Civil War veteran, Susie King Taylor is a remarkable figure in both local and national history. Born into slavery in.
Capt. Abner West (1811–1902) of Vineyard Haven had just about retired from the sea. He had been aboard ship most of his life, having begun his whaling career as a mess boy at the age of 10. He had whaled ever since, commanding at least four different ships on more than a half-dozen lengthy voyages […]
To fans’ inevitable dismay, “This Was A Poet -” doesn’t actually contain much interaction between Emily and Sue. That’s because the episode focuses on Emily’s period of isolated creativity, which was an extended era of the poet’s real life. Sue still goes to bat for Emily when Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Gabriel Ebert) arrives to […]
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