Amesbury Archives

12/21/2025

Forty Christmases ago this year, here's Chris Cluney and Frank Gurczak visiting with Tim Stevens at Stevens Tree Farm.

12/21/2025

1 hour of highlights of the 1985 Amesbury High School.

New England Cablevision presentsAmesbury High School Football1985 Season HighlightsAn F&M ProductionFilmed, Edited, and Compiledby Frank J. Gurczak and Mike...

12/21/2025

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12/20/2025

Broadcast 40 years and a day ago, here's Christmas On Main Street with Chris Cluney.

Chris visits Tim at Stevens Tree Farm, Bartley Machine, and Larry at The Divided House.

MAIN STREETwith Chris Cluney"Christmas On Main Street"Produced and Directed by Frank J. GurczakTechnical Advisor: Frank VinceguerraTalent Coordinator: Chris ...

11/04/2025

Did you know former Vice President Dick Cheney was the 8th great-grandson of Susannah Martin, accused witch of Amesbury? (Also related to Susannah: Burl Ives, President Chester A. Arthur, and Mickey Rourke.)

Ancestor chart showing how Susannah (North) Martin is the 8th Great-grandmother to Dick Cheney via Susannah (North) Martin.

11/01/2025

Happy Halloween!

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06/24/2025

Incredible series of over 100 scanned 35mm negatives of the 1964 Amesbury High School fire from the Bill Lane Collection via The Newburyport Public Library:

An online library of photographs, manuscripts, audio recordings, and other materials of historical interest from libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies across Massachusetts.

06/20/2025

Return to 1985 Amesbury.

Join Chris Cluney as she meets with artists and athletes, poets and police officers.

You can drop off those overdue books at the library before Betty calls your house, ask Melody for some warm-up exercises, take a ride on a horse at Fran's farm, see the Seabrook Nuclear Plant from the sky, go skating at the Graf Rink, or catch up with Kevin and his new construction project.

Series Directed by Frank J. Gurczak
Technical Direction: Frank Vinceguerra
Talent Coordinator: Chris Cluney

A production of NEC-TV 12, Amesbury, MA.

Return to 1985 Amesbury.Join Chris Cluney as she meets with artists, athletes, poets, and police officers. You can drop off those overdue books at the librar...

01/12/2025

John R. Neill, who drew the original Oz books by L. Frank Baum, also illustrated a version of John Greenleaf Whittier's "Snowbound":
https://archive.org/details/snowbound00whit/page/n3/mode/2up

11/27/2024

The Amesbury Daily News' post mortem on the 1951 Thanksgiving Day game.

Courtesy of The Amesbury Public Library Digital Archives
https://amesbury.historyarchives.online/home

11/27/2024

73 years and a few days ago, here is film from the early part of the 1951 Thanksgiving Day game, when Amesbury beat Newburyport, 99-6.

Thursday, November 22, 1951Amesbury (99) vs. Newburyport (6)