The giant Halloween ephemera factory in Framingham, Mass., for many years churned out crepe paper and cut-outs that collectors go crazy for...
J.J. Van Alen served as a lightning rod for controversy his whole life. But never more so than when he took up...
In August of 1929, police in Chester, Vt., discovered the body of a young woman buried in a grove of spruce trees....
On Nov. 5, 1872, Benjamin Briggs of Wareham, Mass., piloted the brigantine Mary Celeste to sea loaded with cargo for Genoa. It...
In 1737, at the age of 31, Boston-born Benjamin Franklin decided to point out the many phrases people used to describe drunkenness....
Dogs were said to go mad during the dog days of summer, and New Englanders have certainly done strange things in the...