Diamond Jim Brady once spat out an oyster served him at New York’s Delmonico’s restaurant. “That’s not a Wellfleet oyster!” exclaimed the...
New England has no shortage of summer paintings. For centuries, artists have fled cities in summer for the cool air by the...
People often wonder how and why the Jenny Lind Tower ended up on the sand dunes of North Truro, Mass. It’s an...
Of all the storms that struck New England over the centuries, only one was named after its victim: The Portland Gale of...
Over the course of New England history many thousands of workers were killed on the job. Some, like Vermont quarry workers, died...
On Jan. 18, 1903, Guglielmo Marconi sent a message from his Cape Cod station, the first radio transmission to cross the Atlantic...