One of the more perplexing episodes in Duxbury’s Civil War history (and a lengthy one at that) was the matter of the bounties that were promised to the first group of Duxbury men who enlisted in Ma. […]
Award-winning biographer Eve LaPlante , Abigail May Alcott’s great-niece and Louisa May Alcott’s cousin, re-creates their shared story from diaries, letters, and personal papers, some recently discovered in a family attic and many others that were thought to have been destroyed. In this groundbreaking work, LaPlante paints an exquisitely moving and utterly convincing portrait of [...]
The Duxbury Rural and Historical Society has established an online archive of historical Duxbury photographs through Flickr, a photo-sharing website. The site currently features over 250 photographs of Duxbury ranging from the late 19th to mid-20th century. Many, many more photographs will be added to the site in the coming weeks. There are some fascinating images [...]