Mild weather dominated December of 1909 in New England. The weather service reported 20 “ideal days” that month. The string of mild...
The recent discovery of the Wheeler-Thoreau shanty site by Jeff Craig is revealing exciting new details as the archaeological evaluation of this...
During the Great Depression, the U.S. government built 2.3 million outhouses in rural America. They earned several nicknames, including the Roosevelt Outhouse,...
For most of human history food was something you found or grew and then gladly ate to stay alive. There was little...
Island castaways don’t have it easy. Just ask Robinson Crusoe. Yet, for centuries, medical and political authorities relied on the general inaccessibility...