Arts and Leisure
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8.9K3Maxine Elliott: The Maine Starlet and Winston Churchill
In all the movies, books and histories that explored the life of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, only a short excerpt from...
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11.2K1The Mysterious Death of Cape Cod’s David Bacon
In September of 1943, witnesses saw David Bacon drive his sports car off a California highway and into a bean field. As...
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5.7KRobert Flaherty Brings Nanook of the North to Life
Nearly 100 years after he initially created the film Nanook of the North, people are still debating Robert Flaherty's film, describing it...
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14.6K3Seven Colonial New England Games
The Puritans were never known for their lighthearted play, and the Puritan leadership viewed colonial New England games with disgust. In the early...
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10.9K2John Greenleaf Whittier and the Real Maud Muller
New England's Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier wrote the sentimental and melancholy story of Maud Muller in 1854. The poem, one of...
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9.8K1Five Historic Thanksgiving Foods . . . That You Won’t Be Eating
The best food historians can say is that turkey probably has been on Thanksgiving tables since the beginning, and it's been remarkably...
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6.6K2The Mysterious 1644 Portrait of Roger Williams
A portrait of Roger Williams is easy to sketch in words: Baptist minister banished from Massachusetts, founding father of Rhode Island and...
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8.3K3Old New England Holidays We No Longer Celebrate
Early New Englanders, influenced by the Puritans, were reluctant celebrants for most holidays. Religious festivals, they felt, were un-Christian and pagan. Yet...
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11.3K3Nine Apple Cider Traditions That Are No Longer With Us
Today apple trees litter the roadsides of New England, often ignored or painted and photographed for their scenic charms. But from the...
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30.5K1Hell-Born Babes and Slubbers: Ten Ways to Call Someone Wicked in Colonial Times
Colonists coming from England had plenty of and informal and slang expressions to call someone evil. Here are ten of them: A...
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