The Great 1938 Hurricane took almost everyone by surprise. Sept. 21, 1938, was supposed to be a breezy fall day in New...
Benjamin Thompson played a part in the American Revolution and the revolution in thermodynamics – and then became the German Count Rumford,...
William Tudor fell in love with a loyalist. It was an awkward position for a rebel who would become the first judge...
In colonial New England, the new year did not start on January 1. Not because the Puritans didn’t want people to have...
The New England Flying Santa tradition was born in the teeth of a fierce winter storm when lighthouse beacons along Penobscot Bay...
A brazen theft of the sacred cod in 1933 by Harvard students sent the Commonwealth reeling for a few wild days. State...