In an early display of homophobia, 60 Harvard students dressed up like the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde when he delivered a lecture...
It was the cause celebre of 1896: a statue of a naked drunken woman was gifted to the new Boston Public Library...
In the summer of 1916, Eugene O’Neill arrived in Provincetown, Mass., depressed over his failure to find a stage for his plays....
When Irish-Catholic Louise Guiney got the job of postmistress in Auburndale, Mass., the town’s Protestants boycotted her stamps. That created a problem....
An old New England tradition that perhaps deserves reviving is the giving of a May basket on May Day. It was popular...
A Lebanese boy named Kahlil Gibran got a lift out of Boston’s slums from a wealthy Bohemian who liked to take pictures....