Which Warren

This house won’t be around much longer. Nor will my interest in it, I’m afraid. I’ve moved on. When I visited the remains of Arrigo Farm on the borders of Watertown, Waltham, and Belmont, I thought I had an ancestral connection. This 4.2 acre piece of land is one of the oldest continuously farmed places

Parmenter’s Ordinary

My immigrant ancestors are what this series of drawings is all about. I track them down by book and by foot—traveling back in time and over to towns and neighborhoods that I’ve never visited before. I walk the streets with my sketchbook. For me, sketching is a form of research. With my drawings, I try

Long Ago

On June 17, 1775, the Three Cranes Tavern of Charlestown, Massachusetts, burned to the ground during the Battle of Bunker Hill. Gone for centuries, it was unearthed in the 1980s in preparation for Boston’s “Big Dig”— the most expensive highway project in American history. This archeological dig found a wealth of pottery, glass, coins, smoking pipes,