Nine years after he wrote a poem honoring the Christiana Riot and the brave Lancaster Countians who fought against slavery, poet John Greenleaf Whittier immortalized yet another local person in 1864 ...

Notes: Few passers-by notice a granite marker on Cider Hill Road (Route 91) that identifies the spot where John Greenleaf Whittier in 1854 encountered a young farm girl in bare feet raking hay, which ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Yesterday I wrote about the patriotic myth of “Paul Revere’s Ride,” ...

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The poet John Greenleaf Whittier of Haverhill and Amesbury, Massachusetts, spent many a summer on the New Hampshire Seacoast. Well-acquainted with its natural beauty, history, and local legends, he ...

HAVERHILL — It took Gus Reusch more than three months to grow the Quaker-style beard he needed to authentically portray poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier. The growth was full enough in ...

A statue of John Greenleaf Whittier, the poet, abolitionist and Quaker the city was named after, was vandalized over the weekend. The still-unidentified vandal wrote “BLM” as well as an”(expletive) ...

“The worth of the man blending with the worth of the life he portrayed, independent of all considerations of art, has won for him the admiration and affection of the common people.” The time has come ...