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After her husband, California railroad magnate Mark Hopkins, died in 1878, Mary Kellogg Hopkins busied herself building and decorating fine mansions. She began a courtship with Edward Francis Searles, an interior decorator sent by the Herter Brothers firm of New York. Read more at https://blog.genealogybank.com/the-gilded-age-palace-what-mark-hopkins-bankrolled.html

Before the 1918 Influenza, rightfully called “the Mother of All Pandemics,” another epidemic of grip (influenza and pneumonia) swept over the United States. The nation’s death rate rose sharply due to this respiratory disease epidemic, which lasted between December 1915 and January 1917.

One of Massachusetts’ oldest blood lines, the Hart family, almost perished due to the grip. Read more at https://blog.genealogybank.com/earlier-pandemic-nearly-ends-hart-family-line.html

Much of 17th century New England was powered by tide mills. A tide mill was any kind of mill powered by tidal water. Unfortunately these type of mills have been overlooked, but the tide is turning. 

Over the past 10 years, John Goff, Bud Warren, and Earl Taylor, founders of the Tidal Mills Institute (TMI) have strived to advance the appreciation of tide mill history and technology. TMI also promotes the use of former tide sites and fosters the research of many tidal mill enthusiasts. Read more Tide Mills

During the 17th century, fornication was by far the most prosecuted crime in Massachusetts Bay Colony. Despite its rigid legal system, the New Jerusalem could not temper the fever to frolic. Midwives assisting unwed mothers were often expected to testify in court and reveal the father’s name. Puritans believed that women endured so much anguish during childbirth that they would make a confession to the trusted midwife, thereby saving the community from the expense of raising a child.

Read more https://www.genealogymagazine.com/confessions-of-a-colonial-midwife/

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