One day in June of 1783, four-year-old Sarah Whitcher of Warren, N.H., begged her parents to let her go along with them...
Ethan Allen got married to his second wife in a bizarre ceremony after a whirlwind courtship to a woman half his age....
Edgar Allan Poe based the macabre short story, The Cask of Amontillado, on a legend he heard while serving in a fort...
The practice of bundling probably caused New England’s gentry more embarrassment than any other local folk custom. City slickers and the upper...
Choosing the right husband or wife was as tough for old-time New Englanders as it is today. Fortunately, there were plenty of...
Left-wing activists would never have adopted Kumbaya as an anthem if a folklore buff hadn’t lugged wax cylinders to the Sea Islands. There,...