Look closely at a map of Massachusetts and you’ll notice the southwestern corner doesn’t square off. It’s as if someone chopped off...
Sixty-three years before the Boston Tea Party, outraged men launched a nighttime attack on a ship belonging to Andrew Belcher in Boston...
The Battle of Margaretta, by today’s standards, was really more of a skirmish: a sailing vessel with four guns attacked by woodsmen...
When the Samuel Willey family moved to Crawford Notch in 1825, they unwittingly set in motion a chain of events that turned...
Cranberry bogs, ubiquitous in Southeastern Massachusetts, can be found in every New England state. They are enjoying something of a revival, as...
Opera houses didn’t become a feature of American cities and towns until after the Civil War, though they existed before the American...