Crime & Scandal
In 18th-century Middletown, Conn., a tall, dark-skinned man named Prince Mortimer walked the same path each day, trudging to his master’s ropeworks where he spun …
Arts & Leisure
New England was well ahead of the game when it came to integrating professional sports, and a man from a city nearly in its center, …
Politics & Military
In 1860, Abraham Lincoln sent a most curious message to Sen. Hannibal Hamlin of Maine. It was a letter of introduction. Lincoln, the Republican nominee …
Business & Labor
WBZ-AM became the first commercial radio station in New England in 1921. Since its on-air debut, its formats have featured original programming, news, weather, music, …
Religion & Social Movements
In 1838, a handful of immigrant families stepped off the Boston docks onto a steamboat bound for a new Irish utopia in Aroostook County, Maine. …
Science & Nature
You’ve probably seen his name and glossed over it without a thought. But if you had been born in the 19 th Century, it was …
