As World War I raged in Europe, New Englanders died at home from a foe more deadly than bullets: the 1918 flu...
In 1915, four Madeiran men organized a feast at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in New Bedford, Mass. They did it...
Twenty-one-year-old S. Z. Poli came to America in 1881 with little more than the ability to carve lifelike figures from wax. He...
The Great 1927 Flood was easily the worst in the Vermont’s history. Torrential tropical rains of up to 9 inches from November...
Hurricane Diane might not have caused so much damage had Hurricane Connie not struck a few days earlier. But Hurricane Diane was...
Moses Dunbar was hanged in Hartford, Conn., on March 19, 1777 – and his father, it is believed, offered the hemp for...