In the early part of the 20th century, entire church congregations from Americus, Ga., moved to Hartford during the great black migration...
New England’s Gun Valley began with George Washington, who in 1777 scouted the site on an old Puritan muster ground in Springfield,...
What is so appealing about abandoned places? Cyberspace abounds with photos, videos and bloggers waxing elegiac about abandoned old mills, mansions and...
Henry Vaughan didn’t leave much in the way of paper records, but he did change the face of Puritan New England with...
In 2013, Jamie Wyeth’s new portrait of Rockwell Kent on Monhegan Island, paintbrush and palette in hand, was exhibited at the Brandywine...
Some brides in early New England actually got married while naked. Or maybe they just wore their underwear, or smock, which is...