e-Newsletter | November 25, 2022
The 2023 Calendar Has Gone to the Dogs (and Goats!)
The perfect gift for lovers of animals, history, or both! This year’s calendar, “Constant Companions: Animals of Old Newbury,” features 13 photos, art works, and vintage advertisements from our collection. You can order your calendar here.
Whether beloved pets, a new breed laying hen, or a means of transportation, animals have always been an integral part of the fabric of the Newburys. From city dogs to driving goats, each month of the calendar features a full-sized image, many of them depicting interactions between animals and humans, reminding us that we are not so different from our ancestors when it comes to our relationships with our furry (or feathered) friends.
$20 with $3 shipping or free pickup in Newburyport. Calendars are available online or stop by the Museum to purchase. The museum office is open Tuesday-Friday, 10am-4pm . 98 High St. Newburyport (please use the Fruit St. door). You can also buy your calendar at the museum open house, Dec. 3 & 4 (see below).
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Upcoming Events
Holiday Open House
Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 3 & 4, 10am-4pm
98 High St., Newburyport
Come by the Museum 10am- 4pm, Saturday, December 3 and Sunday, December 4 to see the 1808 Cushing House, a National Historic Landmark, in all its holiday finery!

Guests will enjoy exquisite decorations, festive music and the company of friends and neighbors for two days of free walk-through tours.

The grand 1808 Cushing House is a perfect space to highlight the talents of area garden clubs and decorators including volunteers from the Newburyport Garden Club, Newburyport Horticultural Society, Newbury Garden Club and West Newbury Garden Club, with designer Lillian Newbert rounding -out the group.

Admission is free. Events during the day include: Saturday, 10-1 and Sunday 12-3- traditional music by O'Carolan Etc.
Saturday 12-2 and Sunday 10-12 - Ghlee Woodworth book signing

The 2023 Calendar and signed books by Bethany Groff Dorau will also be available during the open house, as will be other books and museum totes. Shop local at the Museum of Old Newbury! No registration required - it's an open house!
Members Holiday Party
Sunday, Dec. 4, 4-7pm, 98 High St., Newburyport
(Member party is full; click below to join waitlist)
I Will Be Heard: Antislavery Printing and Youth Activism at William Lloyd Garrison’s Liberator Office
At Old South Church, 29 Federal St., Newburyport, MA
Saturday, December 10, 2022, 7:00 PM  8:30 PM. Free.

The 3rd Annual William Lloyd Garrison Lecture, delivered this year by Prof. Kabria Baumgartner, will examine the lesser known role that Garrison and his radical antislavery newspaper played in teaching Black youth communication arts skills that they used to advance the antislavery movement and their own careers in diverse occupations.

Exploring this forgotten history is vital not only to spotlight the power of the press and the impact of a collective voice in Black communities, but it also reminds us of the importance of social movements in shaping youth activism.

Kabria Baumgartner, Ph.D., is the Dean’s Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies at Northeastern University where she also serves as Associate Director of Public History. She is a historian of the 19th-century United States, with a specialization in African American history.

Free to all thanks to a Bridge Street Grant from Mass Humanities.
Woman on the High Seas
...a blog by Bethany Groff Dorau, Executive Director

Bethany is on a well-deserved vacation; her blog will return on December 9. You can find recent blog posts here https://www.newburyhistory.org/blog and older posts here https://www.newburyhistory.org/woman-on-the-moon

If still need your fix of old Newbury family history, please read last week's blog post from American Ancestors' Christoper Child, "Governors of Massachusetts," detailing Newbury & Newburyport connections of Governor-elect Maura Healey! She and Charlie Baker descend from many of the same families (as does Bethany), and this very fun graphic by Ellen Maxwell creatively shows their connections.

From the article:
"The original map was from Ould Newbury by John Currier (1896). For the graphic, sixteen of Gov. Baker’s ancestors were highlighted in yellow. Ellen updated the graphic below, with Gov. Healey’s ancestors highlighted in blue, and their common ancestors now highlighted in green!"
Something Is Always Cooking...
Apple Pie with Boiled Cider

I grew up with LOTS of apple pie. My grandmother's brothers moved the family from Kentucky to eastern Washington State and got into the orchard business in the 1910s. There were always apples at hand and my grandmother's pie was a straightforward affair - Crisco crust, Yellow Transparent apples, 1/4 cup of sugar, a few pats of butter, and definitely NO cinnamon. I still love this pie, but people today are enjoying bolder flavors. This Thanksgiving, I added boiled cider to the pie to enhance the apple flavor -and it worked! It's available for purchase, but you can make your own by reducing your favorite cider to one eighth its original volume (your house will smell great in the process). This will give you 4 tablespoons - enough for two pies. Cinnamon and allspice also brighten up the flavors. -Kristen Fehlhaber

Using a 9" double pie crust of your choosing, add this filling:

2 T. boiled cider - To make your own, boil 2 cups apple cider and simmer it long enough to become 1/4 cup (4 tablespoons). Do this before you start the cutting your apples.
8 medium apples, peeled and sliced (Cortland is my favorite)
2 T. lemon juice
3/4 cup sugar
1 T. flour
1 T. cornstarch
1/4 t. salt
1 1/2 t. cinnamon
1/2 t. allspice


Peel apples and add lemon juice. Add sugar, boiled cider, spices, and other ingredients right before your are ready to cover your pie (the sugar will draw out liquid from the apples, so it's best to get it in the oven quickly). Add a few pats of butter, and cover with top crust. Bake at 425F for 15 minutes. Turn down to 375F and bake for an additional 40 minutes. If the rim is getting too brown, cover the edge with a foil strip.

For pie crust instructions, you can't go wrong with King Arthur Flour's Apple Pie recipe, from which this recipe was adapted.

PS - Happy "Pie for Breakfast" Day!!
Puzzle Me This...
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Did you know? From 1898 to 1923, Newburyport had a drinking fountain for horses. It was donated by Mrs. Ann E. Taggart of East Boston and located on the west end of Bartlet Mall at the corner of Auburn St. and High St.

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