In 1737, at the age of 31, Boston-born Benjamin Franklin decided to point out the many phrases people used to describe drunkenness....
In July of 1816, Michael Martin encountered an odd clergyman at a tavern in his native Ireland. The cleric dazzled him with...
Sam Adams was a devout Puritan who brought his religious convictions to the fight for American liberty. That did not mean he...
When Penobscot logging was at its peak, lumbermen flocked to the bordello run by Fan Jones near the Devil’s Half Acre in...
Fanny Hardy Eckstorm in 1904 published a story about the tragic death of Henry David Thoreau’s Maine guide, a Wabanaki Indian who...
Dr. Seuss lived much of his life in California and New York, but never really left Springfield, Mass., where he was born...