One day in 1860, Henry Cabot Lodge was sitting on the porch of the little school he attended in Nahant, Mass., when...
The beautiful Ethel Reed blazed like a meteor across Boston’s artistic firmament in the 1890s, but after a broken engagement she all...
Famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted in 1893 dismissed 21-year-old Beatrix Farrand as a dilettante gardener, but six years later she had...
When Isabella Stewart Gardner wanted to meet Claude Monet, her first thought was to wrangle an invitation from Lilla Cabot Perry. Lilla,...
Nora Saltonstall got a chance to visit her brother on the Western Front during World War I. She, for nearly a year...
There was only one kind of murder in Massachusetts when the sensational Parkman-Webster case caught the world’s attention in 1850: The kind...