The summer White House has featured in presidential life since John Adams returned to Quincy, Mass., to get away from the muggy...
In January of 1856, a radical physician from Massachusetts, Charles Robinson, won election as governor of Kansas. President Franklin Pierce declared him...
In the beginning years of the 20th century, the tiny village of Wells River, Vt., was invaded annually by hordes of fat...
In July 1896, the Herbert Fuller put to sea from Boston with 11 people on board. The barkentine was loaded with lumber,...
The story of the Duchess of Dix Island begins with a bad investment. In 1839 Horace Beals became a partner in the...
The L Street Brownies annual New Year’s Day plunge had its beginnings with pious reformers who wanted to wash the unwashed —...