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

North Shore out of Boston: the first public ether demonstration, Count Rumford's strange scientific career, the Southwick and Balch family houses standing since the 1630s, Hammond's eccentric castle, and the Gloucester fleet that paid for it all in men.

The stories

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  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

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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.