Editor’s Note (May 31, 2026): This post was originally published on June 24, 2022. Recent coverage of the 1863 Malden Bank Murder in the following Chronicle segment on WCVB has introduced this story to a broader audience. For those seeking additional background, this blog post recounts how a portrait hanging in the Malden Public LibraryContinue reading “Frank Converse: two portraits, one poem, an image carved into a gravestone weathered by time and a crime mostly forgotten by history… until now”
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