Find Yourself in The Past

Fairbanks and Prescott Families
Early Settlers of the 1630s
Massachusetts Bay Colony




Live The Past in
“Made to Last Forever:
A Family. A House. A Nation.”

Available October 1, 2025

 Join the Fairbanks and Prescotts for their arrival and settlement of early 17th century New England. This blog presents the facts and events on which “MADE TO LAST FOREVER”, a Biographical Historical Novel is based. 


Book Cover "Made to Last Forever: A Family. A House. A Nation.

Sharmin Fairbanks
McKenny

 
 

Fairbanks House Museum, Dedham, MA. Built 1637




Visit Your Past at the Fairbanks House
Oldest Frame House in the Nation
Dedham, Massechusetts
www.FairbanksHouse.org

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Glimpses into "Made to Last Forever": Fairbanks 1600s letters and Fairbanks Revolutionary War Patriots : Associated Letters
Glimpses into "Made to Last Forever": Fairbanks 1600s letters and Fairbanks Revolutionary War Patriots : Associated Letters

Old book, Fairbanks seal, wax seal on 1600s folded letter

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Glimpse into Made to Last Forever & Fairbanks Revolutionary War Patriot Project: Drums as Warnings and Nonverbal Communications
Glimpse into Made to Last Forever & Fairbanks Revolutionary War Patriot Project: Drums as Warnings and Nonverbal Communications

Military drummer beating a drum

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Glimpse into "Made to Last Forever" and Fairbanks Revolutionary War Patriot Project
Glimpse into "Made to Last Forever" and Fairbanks Revolutionary War Patriot Project

Doctor in England during 1600s plague wearing mask to hod herbs to dispell odor that may cause the ilness and covered fully to protect from the disease

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Glimpse into Made to Last Forever, England, and Fairbanks in the Lexington Alarms 1775
Glimpse into Made to Last Forever, England, and Fairbanks in the Lexington Alarms 1775

Middle Haigh House in Thornton-in-Craven, England thought to be a house owned by the Fairbank in the 1600s.

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Glimpse into Made to Last Forever and Fairbanks House with Patriots from the Revolutionary War
Glimpse into Made to Last Forever and Fairbanks House with Patriots from the Revolutionary War

Lance Jonathan Fairbanks, member of the Fairbanks Family of the West, and painter of the cover of Made to Last Forever: A Family. A House. A Nation

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Fairbanks Love Story, Revolutionary War Patriot Project, and Indentured Servant
Fairbanks Love Story, Revolutionary War Patriot Project, and Indentured Servant

Man and woman holding hands

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Changing Times for the Fairbanks and Fairbanks Patriot Project
Changing Times for the Fairbanks and Fairbanks Patriot Project

Top of Prospect Hill Monument that sits atop Prospect Hill in Somerville, Massachusetts

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Fairbanks Christmas in 1600 and 1700s: Banning of Christmas and Christmas at Valley Forge
Fairbanks Christmas in 1600 and 1700s: Banning of Christmas and Christmas at Valley Forge

Re-enactors of Valley Forge at the National Park Services, Leadership and military men in front of a hut.

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