In March of 1905, with spring weather coming, the operators of the R. B. Grover & Co. Shoe Factory in Brockton, Mass. decided to switch off their new high-pressure boiler, installed just two years earlier in 1903. It needed maintenance ...

The 1978 blizzard started with snow during the morning of February 6. It didn’t stop for 33 hours, dumping two feet of snow on New England. Sometimes it fell as fast as four inches an hour. Parts of Boston’s South ...

The Little Ice Age changed New England history in ways that historians are only beginning to understand. Though scientists don’t agree on what caused the Little Ice Age, most agree the climate cooled from the 15th century to the middle ...

It was a rare town in New England that was given a unique name by the early English and Scots-Irish settlers. Many New England place names came from towns and shires in England and Ireland. The Puritans even named groups ...

The Fourth of July has been celebrated with feasting, fireworks and festivity since Boston shot off cannons on the first anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. The document wasn’t actually signed on the Fourth of July, as some of the ...

Irish landmarks commemorate the history of Irish immigrants in places you might not expect throughout New England. There’s more to Irish-American history than the Great Hunger, the Kennedys and ‘No Irish Need Apply.’ Irish Catholics came to New England along ...

The McDonald brothers vowed they would get rich when their father lost his job at a New Hampshire shoe factory. After 42 years of loyal service, he received no pension, no gold watch, no thank you. Stung by their father’s ...

Young John Adams frustrated his pious father and vexed his hot-tempered mother with his dislike of school and love of the outdoors. Not until a teacher inspired him did young Adams apply himself to his books. He was born Oct. ...

The Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria wasn't supposed to sink. She was engineered  using lessons learned from the Titanic. But on a calm summer day in peacetime, she sank off the Nantucket coast in the most shocking maritime disaster since the Titanic. The Andrea ...

When Carl Rettich moved to a seaside mansion on Warwick Neck in Warwick, R.I., people thought he was a genteel lawyer named Charles Ryerson who moved to the neighborhood to take care of his elderly father. He was actually a ...