April 10, 1856 was Fast Day in Massachusetts, and 38-year-old Henry David Thoreau checked out the fields in Concord, Mass. They were...
When a New England sea serpent was beached off the coast of Scituate, Mass., in 1970, it marked the continuation of a...
This vintage postcard view of the Quinnipiac River was taken in 1907 from Wallingford, Conn. ‘Quinnipiac’ comes from an Algonquian phrase meaning...
Benjamin Thompson played a part in the American Revolution and the revolution in thermodynamics – and then became the German Count Rumford,...
The great 1936 flood began on March 11 with a downpour in New England that didn’t stop for 14 days. The rain...
Travelling in Japan, if you said to someone, ‘Boys, Be Ambitious!’ you would be readily understood. It’s a widely used expression, and...