Sometime around 1645, William Pynchon wrote down the names given to each full moon by a tribe of Abenaki Indians. Pynchon, an...
Before Polish immigrants arrived in New England they had already made it to the Jamestown colony in Virginia as craftsmen. Over the...
Today’s makers of electric cars should tip their hats to Thomas Davenport of Forest Dale in Central Vermont, who made the first...
In August of 1777, some New Englanders feared America was losing its Revolutionary War. American forces had surrendered Fort Ticonderoga without a...
Ethan Allen got married to his second wife in a bizarre ceremony after a whirlwind courtship to a woman half his age....
The practice of bundling probably caused New England’s gentry more embarrassment than any other local folk custom. City slickers and the upper...