The old saying “As Maine goes, so goes the nation,” may have applied to politics, but never to ketchup. The historic novelist...
Among his many accomplishments, which include founding Quebec City and mapping New France, Samuel de Champlain started a war. Born into a...
Rhode Island’s Governor Samuel Cranston won election as Rhode Island’s governor 30 times, once twice in one year. No other governor surpassed...
A 13-year-old son of a French baron named Jean-Vincent d’Abaddie de Saint-Castin arrives in Maine in 1665 to quell the Iroquois and...
Today the remnants of the colonial Dutch in New England are pretty much limited to the region’s outer rim: At Smith’s Castle...
David Ruggles helped 600 enslaved people to freedom during the 1830s despite attempts to kill him, kidnap him and burn down his...