Around the time 27-year-old Henry David Thoreau moved to Walden Pond, the Fitchburg Railroad opened on its banks, about a third of...
When Andrew Wyeth was born exactly 100 years to the day after the birth of Henry David Thoreau, his father was delighted....
Before Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women, she wrote a book about a young girl named Sylvia in love with an intellectual...
The worst winter ever in New England was probably not 2015, but 1717, when staggering amounts of snow fell in what became...
One April evening in 1860. Franklin Sanborn answered a knock on the door of his home in Concord, Mass. Deputy U.S. Marshal...
In 1832, a young widower named Horace Mann moved into a Boston boardinghouse where he met two intellectual schoolteachers from Salem, Mary...