Thomas and Margaret (Fryer) Gardner of Salem, MA

TL;DR -- Education has been of prime concern from the earliest days of New England. Boston Latin School and Harvard date from the 1630s. Tec...

TL;DR -- We pick up one more President from the early years. In 1665, Harvard graduated its first American Indian. There are other topics of...

TL;DR -- Samuel Webber was a student at Harvard during the time of the Revolution. His term as President was in the period right after the s...

TL;DR -- Captain Johnson filmed his voyage, as a young seaman, rounding Cape Horn in a barque. That was 1928. He narrated the film in 1980. ...

 TL;DR -- The Plymouth and Mayflower time went. There was a year off. Now, we have Weymouth (1622) where we can look at the times, the event...

 TL;DR -- So, Brahmins of Boston and Harvard intertwine, many ways. We have used the concept a couple of times. Looking at A(bbot) Lawrence ...

TL;DR -- A(bbott) Lawrence Lowell served as President of Harvard after Eliot and before Conant. He changed the focus to be more scholarly an...