The Ancient Burying Ground, the oldest historic site in Hartford, contains the remains of 6,000 early men, women and children who settled the town. But it might have disappeared were it not for the efforts of Emily Seymour Goodwin Holcombe, ...

During the 150 years before the American Revolution, a series of aristocrats known as the River Gods ruled the Connecticut River Valley. Their domain had its own economy and culture, which eventually resembled England more than settlements to the east ...

New England's Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier wrote the sentimental and melancholy story of Maud Muller in 1854. The poem, one of his best known, tells of Maud Muller, a beautiful farmer's daughter, and a judge who happens to meet ...

John Marin, voted America’s greatest artist in 1948, looked like an aging Beatle. An admirer described him as having bangs that reached to his eyebrows, pixieish eyes and carefully styled hair that covered his ears. He dressed the dandy for ...

New England’s fall foliage inspires so much imagery we were pretty sure we could find six autumn paintings of New England. Then we thought we could identify each location and find a current photo, with help from Google Maps, Wikipedia ...

Opera houses didn’t become a feature of American cities and towns until after the Civil War, though they existed before the American Revolution. The first of the American opera houses is believed to be in Williamsburg, Va., and dates to ...

Ten years after the Declaration of Independence was adopted, John Trumbull traveled the country in a carriage seeking out all the men who signed the document. He wanted to paint their likenesses as part of a monumental work depicting the ...

People used to dress up when they took the train into the city to visit downtown department stores, plastic charge cards in hand. They often stayed for the day, patronizing nearby theaters, banks, restaurants and other stores, maybe Kresge's or ...

Boston became the birthplace of the American Christmas card when a failed revolutionary -- a German one -- arrived on its shores. Louis Prang was an exile from the Revolutions of 1848 in the German States -- a Forty-Eighter. The revolutionaries aimed to unify the ...

In 2013, artist Jamie Wyeth painted a portrait of Rockwell Kent on Monhegan Island with his paintbrush and palette in hand. In the background a body was falling off a cliff. The body belonged to Sally Maynard Moran, a former ...