In 1930, Varick Frissell traveled north to Canada to make what would turn out to be the deadliest movie ever. Twenty-six people...
George Washington famously feared premature burial. While on his deathbed in 1799, he instructed his personal secretary Tobias Lear to make sure...
Hugh Lofting, the man who created the children's book character Doctor Dolittle, was an MIT trained civil engineer who spent much of...
J.P. Marquand mastered two literary genres. As author of a 1930s detective series centering on the international crime-solving detective Mr. Moto, he...
You don't have to go to Miami or Hollywood for an Art Deco experience. New England has plenty of Art Deco office...
Nearly 100 years after he initially created the film Nanook of the North, people are still debating Robert Flaherty's film, describing it...
So many New England places have served as historic movie sets that we found it hard to choose one for each state....
New England's Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier wrote the sentimental and melancholy story of Maud Muller in 1854. The poem, one of...
Trying to calculate the exact moment of sunrise isn’t easy. In fact, the U.S. Naval Observatory says it’s nearly impossible because of...
Louis de Rochemont had a bone to pick in 1938. In the 1930s, American attitudes toward Nazi Germany and Adolph Hitler were...