Look closely at a map of Massachusetts and you’ll notice the southwestern corner doesn’t square off. It’s as if someone chopped off...
You don't have to go to Miami or Hollywood for an Art Deco experience. New England has plenty of Art Deco office...
Rocky Marciano, a favorite of working-class boxing fans in the 1950s, inspired the fictional Rocky Balboa in the films from 1976 to...
Summer theater has been a feature of New England resort towns since a Maine entrepreneur started staging plays in a former skating...
No matter where Nonantum natives go, they can tell someone is from their village when they hear them speak Lake Talk. Lake...
Jack Sharkey not only won the world heavyweight championship but was responsible for the classic sports expression: We wuz robbed. Sharkey,...
Eleonora Sears pioneered women's sports in the way only a Boston blueblood could. When she took up long-distance walking from Boston to...
The New Hampshire thoroughbred Dancer’s Image won, then lost, the Kentucky Derby in 1968 because his owner made a kind gesture to...
During the War of 1812, more than a thousand African-American prisoners in Dartmoor Prison toed the line set by a tall, powerful...
King Charles Solomon ruled Boston’s underworld without challenge until a small-time gangster gunned him down in the men’s room of the Cotton...