You can’t have missed the catalog for the Vermont Country Store in your mailbox, and you may well have visited one of...
In 1805, Frederic Tudor decided to make his fortune by selling ice to people in tropical climates. Most people thought the 23-year-old...
Johnny Appleseed wasn’t quite a New England version of St. Francis, wandering the countryside in rags, scattering apple seeds and befriending woodland...
There was no shortage of illness in colonial New England and no shortage of colonial remedies. Our forebears left records of suffering...
The best food historians can say is that turkey probably has been on Thanksgiving tables since the beginning, and it’s been remarkably...
Election Cake was a highlight of the Puritan celebration of Election Day, one of the important colonial holidays along with Commencement Day...