The 1762 drought, one of the worst in New England history, stretched all the way to Virginia. It even prompted complaints from...
Terrific lightning storms unsettled New England colonists during the summer of 1768, when rising tensions with Great Britain led to conflict and...
A July 1911 heat wave killed thousands of New Englanders and sent many over the brink of madness. During 11 hellish days,...
During the first half of the 19th century, Mrs. Sigourney wrote such bad poetry when a person died that she was said...
At the 1939 World’s Fair, Massachusetts launched a celebrity onto the world’s stage. She had beautiful brown eyes, gorgeous hair, a sultry...
On Oct. 9, 1804, a snow hurricane struck Eastern New England, the first time in recorded history a tropical storm produced snowfall....