In August of 1929, police in Chester, Vt., discovered the body of a young woman buried in a grove of spruce trees. She could not be identified by her remains. But police thought they might know who the woman was ...

Squirrel Nut Zippers, born in Massachusetts and named after a Vermont drunk, left for Texas in 1999 but since returned to their New England roots. The candy dates back nearly a century, to a time when New England was the ...

The Maine potato candy known as the needham was always overshadowed by the whoopie pie, but generations of Mainers have nonetheless revered the sweet confection. Mainers find needhams in their Christmas stockings. Maine moms get them in gift boxes on ...

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe passenger train, 1875. In 1926, a four-year-old orphan named Lorraine Williams and 13 other children were scrubbed, dressed in new clothes and put onto an orphan train leaving Grand Central Station. The children weren’t told ...

Harriet Hanson Robinson went to work as a Lowell mill girl when she was 10 years old. She grew up to write the mill girls' magazine, The Lowell Offering, publish books and lead the woman's rights movement. She was able to leave ...

New England candy ruled the American confectionery industry from colonial times right through the mid 1900s. Many candy makers made their sugary treats in factories throughout New England, especially in Boston and Cambridge, Mass. The Puritans weren't too puritanical for ...