New Hampshire’s White Mountains carry many household names. But tucked among the familiar sounding Jefferson Notch and Mount Dartmouth is the oddly...
Johnny Appleseed wasn’t quite a New England version of St. Francis, wandering the countryside in rags, scattering apple seeds and befriending woodland...
The early English and Scots-Irish settlers tended not to give a new settlement a unique name. Many New England place names came...
People still can’t seem to get enough of the Salem witch trials, which remain a mainstay of popular culture more than three...
Indian summer evolved over the centuries from a pioneer superstition to the poet’s best friend to the meteorologists’ whipping boy. It is...
The summer White House has featured in presidential life since John Adams returned to Quincy, Mass., to get away from the muggy...