If you need someone to ask directions, the job goes to a woman. It was ever thus. In exploring its archive of school girl art, the Maine Historical Society has found hiding among the samplers two excellent maps, products of ...

On the morning of May 23, 1939, the submarine USS Squalus slipped beneath the storm-tossed surface of the Atlantic on a sea trial. Minutes into the maneuver, she began flooding uncontrollably. The Squalus sank to the ocean floor nine miles ...

Hundreds of filmmakers have been drawn to New England since the turn of the last century, and it isn't just because autumn leaves and church steeples make the perfect backdrop for their classic movies. New England's history and literary tradition ...

The following is the second in a two-part series. To read the first part,click here. Allen Ryan was a predatory capitalist to the hilt. Having bought a special police officers’ commission from New York’s police chief, he is credited with ...

For a few days in 1923, the entire world focused on York Harbor as home to the love nest that figured in the biggest and juiciest society scandal of that era. York Harbor then was much different than it is ...