Gordon Harris
@gordonharris.bsky.social
Ipswich MA local historian; reader, carpenter, cyclist, gardener, walker, writing at https://historicipswich.net.
Cartoon by Bruce McKinnon
September 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Cartoon by Bruce McKinnon
Bruce MacKinnon is a Canadian political cartoonist. www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...
September 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Bruce MacKinnon is a Canadian political cartoonist. www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...
In honor of National Lighthouse Day, this is lightkeeper Benjamin Ellsworth at the Ipswich, Massachusetts lighthouse, which was moved to Martha's Vineyard in 1939.
August 8, 2025 at 12:30 AM
In honor of National Lighthouse Day, this is lightkeeper Benjamin Ellsworth at the Ipswich, Massachusetts lighthouse, which was moved to Martha's Vineyard in 1939.
Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino: "Better get used to us now, cause this is going to be normal very soon. We will go anywhere, anytime we want." heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-7-2025
July 8, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino: "Better get used to us now, cause this is going to be normal very soon. We will go anywhere, anytime we want." heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-7-2025
The difference between masked Hamas terrorists and masked ICE terrorists is that Hamas terrorists wear headbands.
June 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The difference between masked Hamas terrorists and masked ICE terrorists is that Hamas terrorists wear headbands.
I grew up in Mississippi, where armed KKK members wearing masks rounded up and disappeared dark-skinned victims. Today, their initials are ICE, working for the U.S. government.
June 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I grew up in Mississippi, where armed KKK members wearing masks rounded up and disappeared dark-skinned victims. Today, their initials are ICE, working for the U.S. government.
While fascism takes hold: the boring, ineffective leader of Congressional Democrats.
May 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
While fascism takes hold: the boring, ineffective leader of Congressional Democrats.
A hand-drawn map for a 1717 land court case in Ipswich MA. The compass is very detailed, but the map, not so much. archive.org/details/ipsw...
April 18, 2025 at 12:37 AM
A hand-drawn map for a 1717 land court case in Ipswich MA. The compass is very detailed, but the map, not so much. archive.org/details/ipsw...
"AI and crypto can readily afford to bring their own clean power to the grid rather than dump themselves on the grid and make it everybody else's problem to light up the coal plants for them. These people have more money than God."
---R.I. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
---R.I. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
April 15, 2025 at 12:35 PM
"AI and crypto can readily afford to bring their own clean power to the grid rather than dump themselves on the grid and make it everybody else's problem to light up the coal plants for them. These people have more money than God."
---R.I. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
---R.I. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
Twenty-one states have enacted laws restricting rights and/or expanding punishments for peaceful protests since 2017. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
April 10, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Twenty-one states have enacted laws restricting rights and/or expanding punishments for peaceful protests since 2017. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"...Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."
—Martin Niemöller, a German Lutheran pastor who had originally believed and supported Nazi propaganda.
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."
—Martin Niemöller, a German Lutheran pastor who had originally believed and supported Nazi propaganda.
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
March 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
"...Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."
—Martin Niemöller, a German Lutheran pastor who had originally believed and supported Nazi propaganda.
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."
—Martin Niemöller, a German Lutheran pastor who had originally believed and supported Nazi propaganda.
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
The #HistoricIpswich Facebook group has been inactivated and replaced by the #Forum page at historicipswich.net
January 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The #HistoricIpswich Facebook group has been inactivated and replaced by the #Forum page at historicipswich.net
The Choate Bridge in the 19th Century (colorized photo)
November 18, 2024 at 9:34 PM
The Choate Bridge in the 19th Century (colorized photo)