In 1846, 16-year-old Emily Dickinson made a rare foray outside of her Amherst, Mass., home to visit the biggest tourist attraction on...
In 1860, wealthy kidnapper Elizabeth Thorndike Rice hid in Derby, Vt., with her son as her abusive ex-husband tried to find them....
One day in 1860, Henry Cabot Lodge was sitting on the porch of the little school he attended in Nahant, Mass., when...