John William Sterling was a corporate lawyer during the Gilded Age, a conservative, upper-class businessman, the kind of man the Kinks describe...
With Mother’s Day soon upon us, it’s a good time for a reminder about heroic moms. For much of New England history,...
In 1852 James Hinds, a ship builder in Calais, Maine, launched the fastest clipper ship ever built in the state. He’d built...
The weatherbeaten old tars who found refuge in the Sailors Snug Harbor in Quincy, Mass., owed some of their comfortable retirement to...