“Mr. Graves: I pray bring me a pair of mill stones, peak stones, seven foot broad. They are for a windmill.”
John Winthrop, letter to Thomas Graves, June 5, 1634
A devil confronts a ship at sea in this early English woodcut. Image: Wellcome Collection
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Nowhere else in New England can you find a group with an undivided attention on the people and ideas of the 17th century. And it’s all for you!
We’re a small 501(c)(3) nonprofit run by volunteers, all of us captivated by history and committed to bringing you the best of free public history. Our budget is minuscule - and everything costs. So please, if you enjoy our events, whether our fall lectures, our engaging discussions, or just reading our blogs, make a donation.
$250 pays the honorarium for a guest speaker in our fall series
$100 keeps our website up to date with new stories, opinions, images, and events
$50 contributes to the dull-but-essential infrastructure of Zoom, internet, surveys, email services and more that we need to survive in an online age
$25 helps us develop new programs focusing on New England beyond the Puritans
Every donation, no matter how small, helps. We don’t have big donors - we rely on you, the people who join our events.
The more you give, the more we can bring you the 17th century.
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