During the Gilded Age, gentleman farms were an important element of the upper-class lifestyle. They served as formal summer mansions and working farms that often supplied produce and dairy products to the owners’ winter residences. George Washington led the way ...

On September 19, 1774, New England was in a state of alarm. British troops had, on September 1, seized a store of powder from a Boston powder house. Word spread that war had broken out. Militias from across New England ...

Louis de Rochemont had a bone to pick in 1938. In the 1930s, American attitudes toward Nazi Germany and Adolph Hitler were mixed. Even as Hitler ratcheted up his attacks on German Jews and increased his rhetoric about Germany reclaiming ...

Not all courageous heroes receive their due on Veterans or any other day. So many sacrifices have gone unheralded, so many men and women who risked their lives for their country were all but forgotten. For all of New England’s ...

The Indian trails that crisscrossed New England go back to prehistoric times. Native Americans migrated from summer to winter homes along the paths, often worn bare by centuries of travel. They used the trails for hunting, trading and making war. ...

In July of 1911, Hiram Bingham was in a race to climb to the top of South America’s tallest mountain before a 60-year-old schoolteacher named Annie Smith Peck beat him there. Bingham, 36, was an ambitious Yale lecturer who wanted ...

On a hot summer day, July 27, 1777, John Irish, a Quaker farmer, had just finished threshing his wheat and was mowing his field on his farm in Tinmouth, Vt. when a former neighbor, a man named Clough, approached him. ...

On a hot August day in 1704, the Rice boys were working with their fathers to spread flax in a field in what is now Westborough, Mass. Suddenly a party of about 10 Indians rushed down from the wooded hill ...

François-Jean de Chastellux, the French philosopher, writer and general, travelled to America in 1780 as part of the French expeditionary force in the American Revolution. He would record his travels in a book published after the revolution, providing a colorful ...

The roadside motel flowered in all its neon glory along New England’s roads in the decades after World War II, only to fall to motel and hotel chains. The vintage motel and the tourist court still exist in New England. ...