When the Town of Westmoreland, N.H., gave its Boston Post Cane to 113-year-old Mary Ray in 2008, she was believed to be...
The word OK was born on March 23, 1839, a child of New England’s most popular newspaper and a fun-loving group that...
Peace after World War II was shattered in Greenwich, Conn., when a United Nations site committee started looking at land for its...
The story of the Duchess of Dix Island begins with a bad investment. In 1839 Horace Beals became a partner in the...
Boston’s own love-cult leader, Dr. Hugh Manity, gave New England’s newspapers plenty of fodder in 1933 when he was arrested in his...
When John Winthrop set foot on the shores of Salem in 1630, he carried with him an out-of-date almanac that belonged to...