New England films number in the hundreds since the turn of the last century, partly because the region provides such rich material...
Opera houses didn’t become a feature of American cities and towns until after the Civil War, though they existed before the American...
Nathanael Greene had asthma, walked with a pronounced limp and belonged to the pacifist Quaker religion. None of that stopped him from...
The dirty novel Peyton Place landed like a bombshell in 1956, a surprise hit by an unknown author. The critics panned it, the...
Mildred Gillars paid a price for the fame she craved so desperately. She became one of the most hated women in America...
Castles adorn the landscape of New England as they do in Old England, though here they weren’t built to house royalty or...
An old New England tradition that perhaps deserves reviving is the giving of a May basket on May Day. It was popular...
In 1847, a Maine ship captain invented the donut as we know it today – with a hole. On the day Lewis...
Just before Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allied powers, 67 men died in the Battle of Point Judith off the Rhode Island...
Edna St. Vincent Millay was a 22-year-old Vassar student on May 4, 1918 when she wrote a letter thanking her friend Corinne...