Artists gravitate toward places that inspire them creatively, so you can often find artists houses among splendid scenery or in rural isolation....
When the Samuel Willey family moved to Crawford Notch in 1825, they unwittingly set in motion a chain of events that turned...
In 1805, Frederic Tudor decided to make his fortune by selling ice to people in tropical climates. He planned to hook them...
Abolition, war and injustice have inspired tax resisters in New England since even before the American Revolution. And well after the American...
Johnny Appleseed wasn’t quite a New England version of St. Francis, wandering the countryside in rags, scattering apple seeds and befriending woodland...
Let's face it, Franco-American writers never receive their due. They tend to get pigeonholed as regional writers, and they can't take advantage...
The Little Ice Age changed New England history in ways that historians are only beginning to understand. Though scientists don’t agree on...
If the English colonists knew how much pumpkin they’d eat when they got to New England, they might have had second thoughts...
Over the course of New England history many thousands of workers were killed on the job. Some, like Vermont quarry workers, died...
Dogs were said to go mad during the dog days of summer, and New Englanders have certainly done strange things in the...