Let’s face it, Franco-American writers never receive their due. They tend to get pigeonholed as regional writers, and they can’t take advantage...
The Little Ice Age changed New England history in ways that historians are only beginning to understand. Though scientists don’t agree on...
If the English colonists knew how much pumpkin they’d eat when they got to New England, they might have had second thoughts...
Over the course of New England history many thousands of workers were killed on the job. Some, like Vermont quarry workers, died...
Dogs were said to go mad during the dog days of summer, and New Englanders have certainly done strange things in the...
The Thoreau pencil was a triumph in Henry David Thoreau’s lifetime, overshadowed since by the posthumous fame of his books and essays...