Indian summer evolved over the centuries from a pioneer superstition to the poet’s best friend to the meteorologists’ whipping boy. It is...
Curses were a fact of life in colonial America. With limited scientific knowledge, spiritual beliefs reigned supreme. And many believed that a...
The history of New England’s post roads and their stagecoach stops mirror the history of the country. The roads date back to...
Though people typically think of ghost towns as belonging to the Old West, New England actually has plenty. Villages that once supported...
One day in June of 1783, four-year-old Sarah Whitcher of Warren, N.H., begged her parents to let her go along with them...
John Alfred Vials – better known as English Jack or the Hermit of the White Mountains – was a fixture for decades...