For many years the only place you could find something called Wild Turkey in New England was on a liquor store shelf....
The Mark Twain Library in Redding, Conn., started with 200 books donated by local resident Mark Twain – books he’d scribbled over...
The worst thing about the many hoaxes played upon New Englanders throughout history? How many people fell for them. Though many hoaxes...
Benjamin Day pioneered fake news in 1835 with his great moon hoax and other fantastic tales. They made his newspaper, the Sun,...
The Indian trails that crisscrossed New England go back to prehistoric times. Native Americans migrated from summer to winter homes along the...
The early English and Scots-Irish settlers tended not to give a new settlement a unique name. Many New England place names came...