The kidnapping of the Charles Lindbergh baby rocked the world in 1932. But three years earlier it was Lindbergh's sister-in-law who faced...
The Battle of Margaretta, by today’s standards, was really more of a skirmish: a sailing vessel with four guns attacked by woodsmen...
Artists gravitate toward places that inspire them creatively, so you can often find artists houses among splendid scenery or in rural isolation....
Rufus Porter left his mark on early New England homes with stencils on their walls and Scientific American on the coffee table....
In 1914, all the the world, including her hometown of Farmington, Maine, strained its ears for any word that the voice of...
The Penobscot sachem Joseph Orono died in 1801, too early to know about his consolation prize for losing his people’s land to...
Jacataqua, the story goes, fell in love with Aaron Burr when she first laid eyes on him in 1775. She was the...
Abolition, war and injustice have inspired tax resisters in New England since even before the American Revolution. And well after the American...
During World War II, two planes crashed in Maine within four hours of each other, and each crash was the worst in...
Indian women faced double discrimination since the first European colonists arrived in the Americas. Many fought back against the prejudice that destroyed...