Beyond names and dates in your genealogy: Use local newspapers to provide context.

As the weather cools and the leaves begin their last hurrah, it’s time for Nickerson thoughts to turn on ancient burial grounds, and All Hallows Eve – and all those things that may go bump in the proverbial night. Are there haunted places in our ancestral villages? Some Nickersons certainly thought so. In the 1880s, Yankee peddler Levi Phinney Nickerson of Cotuit, Massachusetts, and his horse and cart were a familiar sight along the byways of the Cape. One foggy evening, in t