It was sometime in the early 1980s that I first saw the painting, hanging on the east wall of the east room of a house within walking distance of the FRHS – it was a lovely house, built in the back...
The FRHS archival collections contain thousands of bound volumes and several hundred thousand manuscripts, either individual examples or fonds, all pertaining to various aspects of Fall River...
The latest release from the Fall River Historical Society Press, Main Street in the Eighteen Seventies and Eighties and A Businessman’s Reminiscences of Fifty Years by Thomas Richmond Burrell...
During the 19th and well into the 20th centuries, scores of talented seamstresses from every ethnic background worked privately as dressmakers in Fall River; maintaining workrooms in their homes,...
At this time last year, I wrote that we were in the process of selecting images to illustrate the second volume in the Discourses on History series, published by the FRHS Press. Indeed, Main Street...
In my last posting about Robert Spear Dunning’s 1885 oil-on-panel landscape painting, Autumn at Medway – acquired by the FRHS at auction in April, 2018, and recently returned from the conservator...
It started with a telephone call on Tuesday morning. The inquiry: “Does the historical society have a copy of the 1939 edition of the Academy of the Sacred Hearts Yearbook?” The answer: “No,...
Robert Spear Dunning’s 1885 oil-on-panel landscape painting, Autumn at Medway, acquired by the FRHS in April, 2018, has returned from the conservator restored to its former brilliance – and a...
Hard to believe that it is already March and that yours truly has not posted since December … time does fly, as they say. But there is reason for my seeming negligence. The FRHS is currently closed...
Lizzie Borden was very much a product of her generation of well-heeled spinster ladies and, as such, was never one to forget a kindness; in the manner adopted by many of her contemporaries, she...
