The Boston accent has brought many an actor to grief, especially these days as films about the city just keep coming. George...
The Italian Thanksgiving in New England was and still is a piece de resistance – a masterpiece of Italian and American cooking....
If you want to talk like a Mainer, there’s a lot more to it than ‘ayuh’ and ‘Bah Hahbah.’ And if you’re...
The author of Over the River and Through the Wood was very unlike the other author who wrote a favorite holiday song...
Jacques Pepin and Julia Child were serving up mashed sweet potatoes during a televised cooking show just before Thanksgiving in 2000. Julia...
The legendary movie actress Bette Davis called herself the “Yankee-est gal who ever came down the pike.” She was born and educated...
Kurt Vonnegut wrote the kind of books that students in the 1960s bought to stoke their outrage and disdain. Outrage over the...
Ptown, as so many know it, was once a shabby old seaport that had fallen on hard times. Yankees lived on one...
Mark Twain liked a good meal, a good cigar and a good cocktail. During a trip to Europe in the 1880s, he...