Alfred Winslow Jones had been a spy, a sociologist, a magazine writer and a Communist before he invented the modern hedge fund...
For half her life, Margarett Sargent struggled against the strictures and demands of her Boston Brahmin upbringing. Then for the other half,...
In 1838, politicians in Washington, like Maine representative Jonathan Cilley, didn’t have Twitter to settle their political fights. But they did have...
During the Gilded Age, the gentleman farm was an important element of the upper-class lifestyle. They served as formal summer mansions and...
There was a real Miss Rumphius who lived in Christmas Cove and secretly planted lupine seeds to adorn Maine’s roadsides and meadows....
New England’s autumn fairs an festivals feature the oddest of contests: Who can grow the biggest giant pumpkin? The tradition of the...