New England wedding customs and superstitions in the 1700s mixed home-grown ideas and practices imported mainly from Britain. Some wedding customs, like ...
Henry Wheeler Shaw, the 19th-century humorist known as Josh Billings, said genuine proverbs are like good cambric needles: short, sharp and shiny....
Joe Attien was a Maine guide, logger and Penobscot chief who died in a logging accident. It probably wouldn’t have happened if...
Some brides in early New England actually got married while naked. Or maybe they just wore their underwear, or smock, which is...
An old New England tradition that perhaps deserves reviving is the giving of a May basket on May Day. It was popular...
Candlemas was always about two thing before it was about the groundhog: candles and the weather. For many Catholics, Candlemas was also...