The old saying “As Maine goes, so goes the nation,” may have applied to politics, but never to ketchup. The historic novelist...
The early English and Scots-Irish settlers tended not to give a new settlement a unique name. Many New England place names came...
Family-owned businesses are becoming a thing of the past as Amazon and Walmart gobble up everything in sight. But the independent business...
The Lyman Estate in Waltham, Mass., commemorates one of the greatest China traders of his age, Theodore Lyman. Few other memorials, written...
Towns and cities across America are dotted with WPA-era murals. Many of them pay tribute to the working classes of America. But...
The Bates Bedspread, once found in nearly every household, has links to presidents, First Ladies, a famous midwife and countless women who...