In August of 1918, someone murdered Dr. William Dean. His killer or killers tied up his body and submerged it in a...
A Massachusetts jury acquitted Mary Webster of witchcraft in 1683, but her Hadley neighbors still thought her a witch – especially since...
Dogs were said to go mad during the dog days of summer, and New Englanders have certainly done strange things in the...
New England’s oldest hospitals are all younger than such venerable institutions as schools, banks, businesses and taverns. Religious orders had run hospitals...
A reputable young Connecticut doctor went off the rails shortly after the American Revolution with an invention that supposedly cured everything: the...
Mothers have always had to balance competing demands, and some of those who did it best made history. Mindful that Mother’s Day...