Scituate was a center of the Irish mossing industry in the 19th and 20th centuries, attracting Irish immigrants seeking work. The Irish mossing industry in Scituate declined in the late 20th century ...

“All changed, changed utterly: / A terrible beauty is born,” wrote Yeats in one of the most powerful political poems of the 20th century, Easter, 1916. The elegiac masterpiece simultaneously mourns ...