On Jan. 13, 1942, German U-boat attacks officially started against merchant ships along the Eastern Seaboard of North America. From then until...
The first Boston Light stood as a beacon in Boston Harbor for 60 years until the British blew it up in 1776....
Edward Hopper is known for his paintings of urban isolation, and yet he did some of his best loved work in rural...
The Great 1938 Hurricane took almost everyone by surprise. Sept. 21, 1938, was supposed to be a breezy fall day in New...
Abbie Burgess, at just 16, kept the light burning in Matinicus Rock Lighthouse for 21 days in 1856 during a violent storm....
Minots Ledge Light, the most romantic lighthouse in America, is also the site of the most tragic event in the history of...
The New England Flying Santa tradition was born in the teeth of a fierce winter storm when lighthouse beacons along Penobscot Bay...
On the morning of May 23, 1939, the submarine USS Squalus slipped beneath the storm-tossed surface of the Atlantic on a sea...