Science and Nature
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14.6K5The Mill River Flood of 1874, A Preventable Tragedy
On May 16, 1874, the cheap and shoddy Mill River dam collapsed, killing 139 people and wiping out four towns in western...
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8.8K1The Great South End Grounds Fire of 1894
The Boston Beaneaters were playing the Baltimore Orioles at the South End Grounds on May 15, 1894, when a fan lit a cigar...
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2.4KFlashback 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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1351Celia 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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1.7K1Flashback 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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3.9K7Martha 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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10.3K5Minots 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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5.2K5Flashback 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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5.4K2Rachel 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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5.3K11Flashback 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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