The oldest synagogues in New England were built well after the first Jewish settlers arrived. Touro Synagogue, the only surviving synagogue from...
In August of 1929, police in Chester, Vt., discovered the body of a young woman buried in a grove of spruce trees....
In 1921, coroners had Edward Searles body exhumed months after his death. Their conclusion, after examination, was that he had not been...
The stately Boston Athenaeum at 10-1/2 Beacon St. owes its storied existence to William Smith Shaw, the obsessive, sickly, curmudgeonly, hard-drinking nephew...
Sitting on the Canadian border didn’t insulate St. Albans, Vt., from Confederate attack during the American Civil War. Canadians viewed New England...
Titicut Follies exposed the sordid and cruel treatment of prisoners in 1966 at Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane in Bridgewater,...