In 1916, a 72-year-old sea captain named Benjamin Cleveland decided to take a 75-year-old wooden vessel on one last voyage. So Cleveland,...
Seventeen days before Thanksgiving in 1959, a government bureaucrat set off the great cranberry scare with a warning: The iconic holiday fruit...
The Great Gale of 1879 showed why Nantucket earned the nickname the Graveyard of the Atlantic. The storm, which began on March...
Ever since George Worthylike climbed the steps to light the lantern at Boston Light in 1716, lighthouse keepers have practiced an extreme...
A surprise German U-boat visit to Newport Harbor during World War I started with pleasantries and ended with mayhem just south of...
When the War of 1812 came to Cape Cod, only a few towns such as Falmouth resisted the British. In response, the...