Molly Bish vanished without a trace in 2000. Her parents vow: “We’ll never stop searching. And we’ll fight to make sure children are safe.”
History
The May 25, 1965, Ali vs. Liston fight for heavyweight champion of the world was supposed to make Lewiston, Maine, famous. Instead, it became “the fiasco.” Excerpt from “The Night Lewiston, Maine, Can Never Forget,” Yankee Magazine, May, 1979. The rematch for the heavyweight championship of the world between Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) and former […]
Some ball hawks don’t need gloves. Watching baseball and watching birds require similar skills. Both employ patience and imagination, sometimes deep thought; both progress slowly, appear boring from a distance, but are punctuated by bursts of joyous activity; neither is hampered by time. Over the years I’ve discovered that major-league ballparks are good places for birdwatching. […]
Some history buffs in New Hampshire — myself included — have always believed that the colonists’ attack on Fort William and Mary in New Castle, New Hampshire, four months before the battles in Lexington and Concord, was, in fact, the beginning of the American Revolution. We feel that the only reason the rest of America […]
The onset of a yard sale typically begins with the realization that your junk seems to be reproducing, creating entirely new categories of clutter. So you decide to sell that extra stuff, casting better judgment and previous experience to the wind. Photo/Art by Mark Brewer First comes a period of sorting, pricing, and domestic negotiation. […]
History
Fishing Buddies
When Ted Williams and Bud Leavitt go fishing, as they’ve been doing for more than 40 years, something is always biting. If the fish aren’t, then the conversation is …
Was New England-born Samuel Wilson the real Uncle Sam? Find out more about the man (and meat inspector) behind an American legend.
Want to find out what’s going on with your neighbors? Hang out at the local diner. If you live in a small town, you have no secrets—which is bad if you’re in the witness-protection program, but good if you wonder where your kids are hanging out or where your chainsaw ended up. So how does […]
Five years before Ben & Jerry’s there was Steve’s Ice Cream in Somerville, Massachusetts.
When we told the story of the the first fried clam in 1979, we expected our readers to weigh in. And weigh in they did.
Throughout 1960, most of New England and all of Boston were caught up in Senator John F. Kennedy’s campaign for the presidency. I was 15 that year, and for me and my friends, Kennedy was a hero whose course we followed with the enthusiasm of youth. On the night before the election, he was to […]
What would you do if you came across a stuck skunk trapped in a glass bottle? Bob Connors did, and he’s here to tell the tale.