The wealthiest towns in each New England state all have good schools, beautiful homes and well-preserved historic districts. They are also, unsurprisingly,...
Military heroes who sacrificed for their country certainly deserve to be remembered on Memorial Day weekend. Some remember them with parades and...
Revolutionary holidays didn't start and end with Independence Day. When the Revolutionary War ended, Trumbull, Conn., celebrated with A Great Jubilee Day...
You didn’t have to show courage in battle to be a revolutionary hero. But if you were, it probably took more than...
On a hot summer day, July 27, 1777, John Irish, a Quaker farmer, had just finished threshing his wheat and was mowing...
Wallace Nutting was a dyspeptic minister so overwhelmed by urban life and modern values that he led countless Americans into a nostalgic...
The gravesites of such revolutionary heroes as Paul Revere and Nathan Hale are well known and well marked, but where are the...
The remains of dozens of revolutionary forts can be found throughout New England. Some, like Fort Halifax in Maine, date to the...
New England is as unlikely a place as there is to celebrate a Christmas first. After all, Puritans in Massachusetts and Connecticut...
For nearly 200 years, from the beginnings of the country, the Stark name, beginning with John Stark, was the gold standard of...