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When listeners like them commit to giving $2 $5 or even $10 a month. That’s why I’m grateful for listeners like Stephen H and Kathleen M from Ireland, the latest listeners to support the show on Paypal. Recent podcast guest Pavlyuchenkova from episode 239, shared some of her research with me and our Patreon sponsors have also enabled me to do deeper research in the Boston Globe Archives. I knew I’d have to revisit the boston Harbor hermit as well. In episode 238, which aired right before Christmas, I reintroduced the hermit of Hyde Park, who initially appeared alongside the Boston Harbor Hermit in episode 19.īack then, each story was delivered in about five or 10 minutes and the research behind the stories didn’t take much longer.Īfter realizing that I now have the means to do justice to the story of the Hyde Park hermit.
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She made a cozy home on an abandoned four masted schooner that ran aground off spectacle island for about 12 years.Īgainst all odds, she managed to hold off agents of the ship’s owners, the health Commission, the Coast Guard and the boston Harbor police,Ībandoned by her no good husband who thought he could make it big in Hollywood and and her three Children were destitute and homeless until they set up a home on the schooner, riding out the great depression rent free on boston Harbor. This week, I’ll be talking about an eccentric woman named Ann Winsor Sherwin Along with her son William. This is episode 2 41, the Boston Harbor Hermit. To share our favorite stories from the history of boston, the hub of the universe. Welcome to hub history where we go far beyond the freedom trail.

A profile of Ann Winsor Sherwin for Find a Grave.“Bonds of Love” in the Motion Picture News.

