The Penobscot sachem Joseph Orono died in 1801, too early to know about his consolation prize for losing his people’s land to...
Of all the storms that struck New England over the centuries, only one was named after its victim: The Portland Gale of...
In March of 1905, with spring weather coming, the operators of the Grover shoe factory in Brockton, Mass., decided to switch off...
In Connecticut they called it ‘Storm Larry.’ But to anyone old enough to remember, the words ‘1978 blizzard’ conjure up some very...
The oldest lighthouse in the country would have been in New England had the British not blown it up during the American...
A convicted counterfeiter and a Connecticut slave made the first U.S. coin, called the fugio cent, in fulfillment of a government contract...