from The Boston Globe

Dana Rudnick/Globe Staff

Museum leaders hope to tap greater appreciation for old homes stirred by TV series

Ripples from an 1829 typhoon off the coast of Macau are still being felt.

The storm killed 27-year-old Thomas Tunno Forbes, a businessman who regularly traveled to Asia as trade between America and China boomed. In his memory, Forbes’s mother built a mansion in Milton that stands to this day. (Read the full story here.)