Science and Nature
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2.3KFlashback Photo: A Ticker Tape Parade for Richard Byrd
On May 9, 1926, Richard Byrd realized the dream of a lifetime by flying 600 miles to the North Pole in a...
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721Celia Thaxter Is Vexed at Her Ignorance, May 1, 1890
The 19th-century writer Celia Thaxter was so outraged by the slaughter of birds for ladies’ hats that in 1886 she became the...
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1.6K1Flashback Photo: Orchard Tender in the Spring
We don’t know much about this photo of an orchard tender taking care of an apple tree, except it makes us feel...
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3.7K6Martha Ballard Crosses the Kennebec To Deliver a Baby
On April 24, 1789, 54-year-old Martha Ballard took a harrowing trip across the flooded Kennebec River to deliver a baby — and then sat...
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9.7K5Minots Ledge Light: The Most Dangerous and Romantic Lighthouse in America
Minots Ledge Light, the most romantic lighthouse in America, is also the site of the most tragic event in the history of...
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4.9K4Flashback Photo: The Outermost House on Cape Cod
At the end of his two-week vacation on Cape Cod, Henry Beston couldn’t bear to leave. He stayed on in his remote...
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5.1K2Rachel Carson at the Edge of the Atlantic
Before Rachel Carson wrote about the environmental dangers of pesticides in her 1962 book Silent Spring, she wrote several popular science books...
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5.1K11Flashback Photo: Mt. Washington, Home of the Big Wind
New Hampshire’s Mt. Washington is a small peak by world standards, but the 231 mph wind recorded on April 12, 1934 proved...
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2.3K4Henry David Thoreau Checks Out the Baseball Fields
On April 10, 1856, 38-year-old Henry David Thoreau checked out the fields in Concord, Mass. They were dry enough for baseball. Thoreau...
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12.7K15The Great New England Sea Serpents
When a New England sea serpent was beached off the coast of Scituate, Mass., in 1970, it marked the continuation of a...
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