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Hello, I'm Noel Young.For 30 years I was a newspaper editor in the UK. For the past 10 years, based in Boston, Massachusetts, I have been supplying newspapers and magazines based in Britain, Canada and Europe with stories and pictures from the USA (and sometimes much further afield).
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The Mayflower gathered all the glory , as it deposited England’s Pilgrims at Plymouth in modern Massachusetts. But the Scots were in on the act, too. This story, published in the Daily Mail , was the first to reveal the name of the ship, The Planter, that took these intrepid Scots sailing from Kirkcudbright in South-West Scotland to America two years later. .
By Noel Young in Boston
The first-ever transatlantic voyage from mainland Scotland to America, aimed at emulating England's Mayflower, was undertaken by a ship from the same port as the Mayflower, it has been revealed in two little-known documents sold at auction in New York . And no-one in Scotland knew a thing about the sale.
The documents , a letter signed by King James VI and a contract for the actual voyage, were described by one Scots expert as "of national significance" .
They were sold to an American dealer for £41,000 who said of the
lack of competition for the documents, "They have been something of a well-kept secret."
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You can never says dead and buried when forensic expert Professor James Starrs is around, as seekers of truth in many cases from Jesse James to Albert DeSalvo the supposed Boston Strangler will attest.
Published in Night and Day , Mail on Sunday UK . |
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The astonishing story of how doctors in Boston set out to put stroke victims back on their feet by implanting pig cells in their brain. Then suddenly, the experiment was halted . . .
Published in Spectrum Magazine UK and Daily Mail. |
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It's one of the most advanced ER departments in the world - and the model for the TV series ER. Noel Young interviews the chief, Dr Alasdair Conn. And he tells the remarkable story of how he met his wife . . . over a cadaver. Published in Spectrum Magazine UK.
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Ruth Ellington, who died earlier this year in New York was arguably the most important woman in Duke Ellington's life. But was she his sister, as much of the world believed , or his daughter as his biographer Austin Lawrence is convinced?
Published in Night and Day magazine, Mail on Sunday UK. |
 This is Laurie Cabot, of Salem, Massachusetts, probably the world's best-known witch. Much of the acceptance of modern-day witches is attributed to Cabot, who was actually dubbed "official witch of Massachusetts" by ex-presidential candidate Michael Dukakis at the time of the tercentenary of the witch trials seven years ago. ', 'Cabot - a witch for more than 40 years who always insists on wearing her robes public -was at first reluctant to settle in the town, which notoriously executed 20 innocents accused of witrchraft in 1692.
In a 1500 word interview with NOEL YOUNG, Cabot tells how centuries of prejudice is now being turned round, to the extent that this year she led a 20-strong delegation of American witches to Stonehenge in Britain and later gave lectures in midwifery, old-style, at Reading University. On Hallowe'een, she witnessed another historic first, a police escort for a parade of 800 witches back from celebrating witchcraft's most holy night at Gallows Hill in Salem. |
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