Sometime around 1645, William Pynchon wrote down the names given to each full moon by a tribe of Abenaki Indians. Pynchon, an...
Like so many New England sports traditions, the Boston Marathon is surrounded by lore and legend. What Bostonian doesn’t know about Heartbreak...
Buffy Sainte-Marie was a rising star in the 1960s until her activism on behalf of her Native-American people put a lid on...
The sensational murder of Jane Macrae in July 1777 made her one of the best known women of the 19th century. She...
Kickapoo Joy Juice was a fictional moonshine created by Al Capp, but there were real Kickapoo ‘medicines’ that sold like wildfire in...
Joe Attien was a Maine guide, logger and Penobscot chief who died in a logging accident. It probably wouldn’t have happened if...