Science and Nature
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24.4K1The Cold Friday of 1810
The legendary Cold Friday of 1810 brought such terrible winds and frigid temperature that people talked and wrote about it for generations....
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5.8K1Fanny Bullock Workman Shows Rich Brits What an American Woman Can Do
In 1898, a 39-year-old American woman named Fanny Bullock Workman did something that shocked the tiny clique of wealthy British men who...
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12.4K3Mr. Marconi Builds a Radio Station on Cape Cod and Comes to the Rescue of the Titanic
On Jan. 18, 1903, Guglielmo Marconi sent a message from his Cape Cod station, the first radio transmission to cross the Atlantic...
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8.1K3John Adams Has a Spa Day in 1771 – at Connecticut’s Fashionable Stafford Springs
The Revolutionary War disrupted the finances and ambitions of all the founding fathers, but none more than Dr. Joseph Warren and his...
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59.7K16The Year a State Burned: Maine Fires of 1947 Wipe Out 9 Towns
A plume of smoke near Dolliver’s dump signaled the end of Bar Harbor’s splendid era and the worst of the terrifying Maine...
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31.8K3Hercules Had It Easy Compared to the Great 1938 Hurricane Tree Cleanup
The Great 1938 Hurricane blew down so many trees that paper mills were still processing them nine years later. Trees downed by...
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12.1K8The Deadly October Gale of 1841
So many Cape Cod fishermen perished in the Great October Gale of 1841 that the peninsula’s young women refused to court men...
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11.4K4The Great Atlantic Hurricane of 1944 Shows Forewarned is Forearmed
Just six years after the Great Hurricane of 1938 devastated New England, a storm of similar magnitude was heading north from the...
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20.1K15The 1918 Flu Epidemic Kills Thousands in New England
As World War I raged in Europe, New Englanders died at home from a foe more deadly than bullets: the 1918 flu...
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3.2KNew England Colonists Thunderstruck by the Lightning Storms of 1768
New Englanders were unsettled by terrific lightning storms during the summer of 1768 when rising tensions with Great Britain led to conflict...
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