Miniseries Preview and Re-Release - Jaws: Amity Island Welcomes You
Jaws is back in cinemas this week, so I wanted to do two things. First, re-release our 2020 episode on Jaws as a distinctly New England stor...
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Ebenezer Scrooge (Fifth Anniversary 2nd Edition)
For Iconography’s fifth anniversary we’re remastering episodes from season one. This is a remastered 2nd edition of Iconography’s first Chri...
Fifth Anniversary Announcement: Season 1 Remastered
It’s Iconography’s fifth birthday this month, and to celebrate the anniversary, we're announcing a series of remastered 2nd editions of epis...
Re-Release: Squanto
With Thanksgiving just around the corner, and Iconography ringing in its fifth birthday, it seemed like a great time to bring up a gem from...
Re-Release: The First Thanksgiving
As we hunker down for what will be a very unconventional Thanksgiving, it seemed like the right time to re-release our 2018 episode explorin...
Jaws: Amity Island Welcomes You
This episode, a deep dive into the 45 year old proto-blockbuster that has dominated the conversation in this lost pandemic summer - Jaws. Th...
A Tale of Two Bridges (3rd Birthday Special w/ Wade Roush of Soonish)
Iconography started three years ago with an episode about two neighboring bridges in the heart of London. Now, for our third birthday, Wade...
The Old Man of the Mountain: A Story in Five Pieces
How does a group of people hold onto an icon when… well, when that icon can no longer be held? In 2003, New Hampshire's state emblem, the Ol...
Interview w/ Brian Logan, Communications Director of Plymouth 400
In this bonus interview episode, Brian Logan, Communications Director for the Plymouth 400 organization gives us insight into what goes into...
Plymouth Rock: A Pageant
Visitors to Plymouth Rock tend to find the icon... underwhelming - a small, scarred rock in a cage. Maybe the reason Plymouth Rock is so fre...
Mayflower II
In the 1950s, something must have been in the water, because all of a sudden, there was a movement afoot to put a replica of the Mayflower i...
The Mayflower
The Mayflower is a foundational icon of the United States, but it was a British ship carrying British subjects to a British colony. So how d...
The First Thanksgiving
Sarah Josepha Hale, editress of Godey's Lady's Book, dedicated years of her life to the crusade to make Thanksgiving a national holiday - sh...
The Crucible of Modern Salem
The Witchfinder General of Salem, Eric Dwinnells leads us on a Halloween journey to the heart of Salem, Massachusetts. Find it questionable...
The Witch Hunt
Can a witch hunt narrative be effective if it includes actual witches? In part one of a two part series on Salem and its Witch Trials, Icono...
Squanto
As an icon, Squanto is known, but he isn’t really known . What Santa is to Christmas and the Easter Bunny is to Easter, Squanto is to Thanks...
Special Episode: Reaching Mars
Look up. This month, July 2018, Mars is as close as he'll get for another 17 years. On a recent trip to Houston and the Johnson Space Center...
John Smith, Admiral of New England
The story of how John Smith made New England, and how New England destroyed John Smith.
The Citgo Sign and the Boston Marathon
Season 2 of Iconography begins with a look at the relationship between two New England icons - a marathon that's become not just the definit...
Season 2 Preview
From England to New England. No I didn't move from London to Boston so I could have that catchy tagline, but I'm not going to look a gift ho...