For over 200 years Connecticut has had a somewhat unique type of local government – a borough, of which nine currently survive....
When the Great September Gale struck New England in the fall of 1815, few could remember the last time such a devastating...
In September of 1943, witnesses saw David Bacon drive his sports car off a California highway and into a bean field. As...
So many New England places have served as historic movie sets that we found it hard to choose one for each state....
Fort Griswold in Groton, Conn. was the scene of Benedict’s Arnold’s final act of treason against his fellow Connecticut countrymen – the...
On the moonless night of Dec. 18, 1813, a pair of mysterious blue lights at the mouth of the Thames River thwarted...
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...
During those confusing, intense first weeks of the American Revolution, Prudence Cummings Wright organized a ladies group -- to capture Loyalist spies...
Henry Vaughan didn’t leave much in the way of paper records, but he did change the face of Puritan New England with...
In 1959 Richard Bissell was named the CIA's deputy director for plans. It was an unusual selection. Bissell was replacing a man,...