The diner has a long and proud history in New England, from its roots outside of a Providence newspaper to today’s retro...
Isaac Bissell electrified the colonies of Massachusetts and Connecticut with the news of the Battle of Lexington in April 1775. He rode...
Early in the American Revolution, Silas Deane worked without salary and spent much of his own money persuading the French to send...
Gerald Chapman, Prohibition’s celebrated “Gentleman Bandit,” might have escaped the gallows if he hadn’t gone on a crime spree in Connecticut. While...
Colonial potty humor has pretty much disappeared, and so have colonial outhouses – but a Connecticut museum has brought them back. The...
The first five U.S. presidents, the founding fathers, were all veteran travelers in New England. And in their travels, they left behind...