About
If you love Southwick, Massachusetts, or have an appetite for local history, you have arrived at the right place!
The Southwick Time Machine is where people can learn about Southwick's fascinating history, the history the textbooks left out. From true crime and biographies to the quirky and fun, the Southwick Time Machine publishes a wide variety of nonfiction short stories.
Originally launched as "From Today's Motorcycle Ride...," a series of social media posts about historic ruins and abandoned buildings found up and down the East Coast,
it morphed into the Southwick Time Machine with a focus on Southwick,
Massachusetts, the author's beloved hometown. But while the Southwick Time Machine focuses on Southwick sometimes the surrounding cities and towns pop up like Granville, Tolland, Westfield, Suffield, Enfield, Springfield, and Northampton.
PLEASE NOTE -
As mentioned, stories published by the Southwick Time Machine are nonfiction. The Southwick Time Machine does not write, publish, or partake in creative nonfiction. No names have been changed, no characters, places, or businesses invented, no events fabricated. The stories are compiled by painfully combing through records and documents and other information found in the public domain, and sometimes from sources such as witnesses or family members or others with knowledge of the people, places, and events in the stories. All information published is believed accurate, but cannot be guaranteed.
Accuracy is important. If you believe something is incorrect or if you have additional information to add to a story, please reach out.
Reader/Fan Photos -
Readers and fans of the Southwick Time Machine are encouraged to submit historic photos - so if you have (and own the rights to) old photos relating to Southwick or the surrounding area, please share them with the Southwick Time Machine - but only if you are granting permission to use the photos as they may appear in an existing or future story. Photographs of scenery, businesses, people, automobiles, animal, etc. are all welcome.
Help Preserve Southwick History
The Southwick Time Machine is not affiliated with any organization or group. However, the Southwick Time Machine encourages its readers and fans to donate items related to Southwick to the local history museum. You can also help by making a monetary donation to the Southwick Time Machine whose mission is preserving history through storytelling. No amount is too small or too big.