When the heat wave of 1896 finally ended on Aug. 13, 1896, it left behind a record of suffering and death ‘long...
Edward Augustus Holyoke was born in Marblehead, Mass. in August 1, 1728. He briefly taught school in Lexington and Roxbury before he...
The brilliant inventor Alexander Graham Bell found his greatest success with the telephone, but perhaps his highest profile effort at inventing came...
The Desert of Maine is a 40-acre swathe of land covered by glacial silt near Freeport. Scientists believe the silt, finer grained...
The spell of the woods stayed for weeks with Henry Withee and Horace Bailey after they canoed down the Allagash River for nine...
On a clear autumn night in 1847, 29-year-old Maria Mitchell climbed to the roof of the Pacific National Bank on Nantucket and...