The Italian Thanksgiving in New England was and still is a piece de resistance – a masterpiece of Italian and American cooking....
The author of Over the River and Through the Wood was very unlike the other author who wrote a favorite holiday song...
During the depths of the Great Depression, a 17-year-old boy from Warren, R.I., enlisted in the Civilian Conservation Corps. He did it...
Revolutionary holidays didn't start and end with Independence Day. When the Revolutionary War ended, Trumbull, Conn., celebrated with A Great Jubilee Day...
Iconic paintings capture the essence of a place or a person. American Gothic, for example, reveals the stoic plainness of the rural...
During the Gilded Age, gentleman farms were an important element of the upper-class lifestyle. They served as formal summer mansions and working...
On one of the shortest days of the year, a group of Plymouth citizens will continue a 248-year-old tradition by celebrating Forefathers...
So much of New England looks like a Currier & Ives print over the holidays that it was hard to choose the...
Growing up in Newport, N.H., Sarah Josepha Hale hardly seemed likely to move a president, build a monument or influence a generation...
Election Cake was a highlight of the Puritan celebration of Election Day, one of the important colonial holidays along with Commencement Day...