Infinite Road
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Boston → Rockport

North Shore to the tip of Cape Ann. Tap a numbered dot and listen.

Narrated by The Historian 69 km · about 48 min · 10 stories

The stories

In order along the route. Tap a dot on the map, or play them here.

  1. 1
    Boston, Massachusetts

    The First Public Ether Demonstration

  2. 2
    Medford, Massachusetts

    Engineering the Middlesex Canal

  3. 3
    Stoneham, Massachusetts

    Benjamin Thompson’s Scientific Legacy Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3

  4. 4
    Wakefield, Massachusetts

    Benjamin Thompson’s Scientific Legacy Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3

  5. 5
    Lynnfield, Massachusetts

    Benjamin Thompson’s Scientific Legacy Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3

  6. 6
    Peabody, Massachusetts

    The Southwick Family Legacy

  7. 7
    Beverly, Massachusetts

    Generations of the Balch House

  8. 8
    Manchester, Massachusetts

    The Littles at Cogswell's Grant

  9. 9
    Gloucester, Massachusetts

    John Hays Hammond's Eccentric Castle

  10. 10
    Gloucester, Massachusetts

    The Gloucester Fishing Fleet

Where the stories come from

Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.