Thomas and Margaret (Fryer) Gardner of Salem, MA

Like spring cleaning, house arrest can offer time and means for the re-arranging that gets ignored in the rush of life as modern society all...

We will start a series of these. Today's theme? Handel? He was the inspiration for several huge talents, such as Mozart, Beethoven, and ...

Two themes pop out for this post. We are in a different time. A pandemic rages for the first time in 100 year. The last one was the Spanish ...

This post continues several threads related to the early times and now. Consider that one of our foci will be expansion out of New England. ...

Everyone knows about the new enemy, Covid-19. This expression is meant to  suggest that we can learn from military experience. Given that th...

We have been at this since 2009 (2010 conceptualization of the Thomas Gardner Society, later Inc.'d) and have watched the changes while ...

The last post touched briefly upon Essex County and preservation. We have had several other looks at Essex. After all, that is where Thomas...