Lying existed in the 1600s, just as it does today. And there were many slang expressions to describe liars and lying. Here are a few of the many ways people spoke about lying in the early days of New England: ...

There has never been an official Massachusetts poet laureate, but there certainly was an unofficial one. Jonathan Plummer of Newburyport, while not anyone’s idea of a master poet, nevertheless managed a partial living off his tales and verses. Though he ...

In the 1600s if someone offered you a Pult in the Munns, you probably didn’t want it. They had lots of expressions to describe body parts and they weren’t always what you’d expect. A broken ankle, for instance, had nothing ...

The story of the Balsams Resort – one of New Hampshire's great old resort hotels north of the notches – begins with a conversation between Henry Hale and George Pullman. Pullman was the engineer who designed the Pullman railway cars, ...

To talk Rhode Island requires more than a passing knowledge of the expression ‘No school Fosta Glosta’ or the difference between a cherrystone and a littleneck. It’s a hybrid of Northern and Southern New England English, a Boston-meets-Brooklyn sound with ...

Mothers have always had to balance competing demands, and some of those who did it best made history. Mindful that Mother's Day is around the corner, we bring you more than six New England mothers who left a mark on ...

The gravesites of such revolutionary heroes as Paul Revere and Nathan Hale are well known and well marked, but where are the revolutionary heroines buried? The New England Historical Society searched for the stories of courageous women willing to sacrifice ...

Justin Morgan became far more famous for the horse he owned than for the brilliant music he wrote. A little six-year-old horse he walked from Springfield, Mass., to Randolph, Vt., would father the first, famous American horse breed. That little ...

Identifying the largest historic districts in New England was no easy task, as the region has so many collections of historic buildings, landscapes, cemeteries, lighthouses and bridges. It was especially tough to decide on the largest historic district in Rhode ...

The New Hampshire accent started with the English colonists who first arrived in North America. They brought with them speech patterns from Elizabethan London and part rural speech from Yorkshire and Lancashire. That evolved into the New Hampshire accent, as ...