The much-loved Christmas song Sleigh Ride was written during an August heat wave for the Boston Pops Orchestra. It didn’t even have...
The Concord Coach might have been called the Lexington Wagon had Lewis Downing decided against visiting his fiancee in New Hampshire. A...
The Boston Red Sox won their first World Series in 1903 with the musical help of a raucous fan club called the...
From about 1750 to 1850, New England had at least 31 elected black kings and governors, nearly all of them enslaved. They...
The Polaroid Corporation, which once employed 21,000 people, got started in a Lebanon, Conn., boys camp in 1922. It happened when a...