Geoffrey Douglas

The Worcester fire of 1999 was dangerous, but the kind the firefighters fought several times each year. Then something happened, and everything when black. Learn more in this 2000 Yankee classic.

In remembering his stepson, a young man who found peace and solace in nature, the author learns about the limits of love, the pain of loss, and finding hope again.

When tragedy rocked a small Vermont town, Police Chief Frank Koss broke the rules of what you’re supposed to do and say.

Ray Garry was barely getting by as a jockey, riding no-account horses for cheap purses at county fairs. Then, on a beautiful late-summer day, what little luck he had ran out.

Was Laura Shaw a reclusive, lonely, mild-mannered claims clerk or a high-rolling, horse-owning millionaire? When she embezzled more than 4 million dollars, she was both. Laura Shaw is rich. A millionaire horsewoman with homes in three states. Some say she’s a lottery winner. Or the daughter of a Midwest jeweler. Or a supermarket heiress from […]

When an oil train derailed just over the Maine border in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, it ignited a horrific inferno that took 47 lives and forever changed the community and its people.

In the summer of 2009, a violent incident between lobstermen on the remote Matinicus Island in Maine would change the close-knit community forever.

Mr. Alphonse Hudon, / wearing a blue parka and dress hat, / leans on his cane on Pawtucket Street, / checking the freshly tarred walk / and grove of short pines / along the Northern Canal. / “Looks good, doesn’t it?” I ask. / And he says, “I liked it better the way it was,” […]