Martha Hale Harvey documented the landscapes and people of turn-of-the-century Cape Ann. Among Martha Hale Harvey’s hundreds of photos of Cape Ann life is this portrait of her husband, George Wainwright Harvey (1855–1930), an oil and watercolor artist renowned for his landscape and maritime scenes. Born in Gloucester in 1862, Martha Hale Rogers married her […]
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Fluffernutters
Made with peanut butter and Marshmallow Fluff on white bread, the Fluffernutter sandwich is a New England classic with a history as long as it is sweet.
More than just a luminary sidekick, the Revere Lantern at the Concord Museum helps narrate the most exciting night in our nation’s early history.
When the Amateur Strand Symphony Orchestra formed in 1924, they rejected the name “Portland Symphony Orchestra” because they felt it was “too imposing.” But they’ve grown into that name.
By the winter of 1773, Josiah Quincy, Jr. knew he was dying. He was an intelligent man—a Harvard educated lawyer—so he harbored no illusions about what a diagnosis of consumption meant. Though just 29-years old, his body was beginning to fail him. His vitality was being burned away, little by little, by the illness germinating […]
It’s spring — time to clean house, jettison junk, and dispense with debris. But that isn’t easy for New Englanders, most of whom seem to be afflicted with a disease known as clutteropathy. Researchers have identified six different strains of this disorder. ACCUMULITIS Also known as “usefulness delusion disorder” (UDDER), this sickness is identified […]
While searching for phones online one day, my mind wandered to the Wyoming, because much like the phone I was hoping to buy, it was a technological dinosaur.
How a pigeon saved the Washington Monument is a sort of sad but mildly interesting piece of historical trivia.
The Blizzard of 1888 dumped the greatest amount of snow ever to have fallen in the United States in one storm. And author Judd Caplovich discovered more about it than anyone who lived through it.
It’s high time we New Englanders had a stake in the zodiac game, and so we proudly present the Yankee Zodiac. (Or semi-proudly.)
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Franks & Beans Revisited
Inspired by a Maine farm, we found five new ways to celebrate the classic New England pairing of franks & beans.
Finally the new year has arrived and a new calendar has begun. Yes, we all know January has 31 days. However, I’m not sure about some of the other months…like June, for instance. Does it have 31 days? Hard to remember. Which brings us to calendar reform. There are those who favor simplifying our calendar […]