5 essential stories by the late, much-loved writer for Yankee and The Old Farmer’s Almanac.
Today
Yankee
Third-class Titanic survivor stories were rare, but passenger Elin Hakkarainen was lucky. Here, she recounts the April, 1912 Titanic sinking.
An ode to the Shining Sea Bikeway, the best coastal bike ride in New England.
Is New England a favorite stop for extraterrestrial visitors? Check out our timeline of reported UFO sightings and alien encounters, and decide for yourself.
History
Guide to New England Slang
Working on your Maine accent? Interpreting some Boston talk? Don’t know a milkshake from a frappe? Let our wicked good guide to New England slang help.
We were coasting toward an intersection on Route 2 on Grand Isle when I spotted a small hand-painted sign promising just the rejuvenation we needed: “Bake Shop.” Soon enough, my 10-year-old son, Calvin, and I had dropped our bikes in the driveway and stepped into the prim little building that housed owner DonnaSue Shaw’s made-from-scratch […]
The lost towns of the Quabbin Reservoir aren’t your typical ghost towns. Learn why they were abandoned, and how they came to be under water.
Where the pavement ends, both community and self-reliance begin.
From ice storms and tornadoes to the summer that wasn’t, here’s a look back at the region’s notable strange weather events.
Investigators still don’t know who was behind the 1990 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum robbery in Boston, but they have a pretty good idea how they did it.
Kosti Ruohomaa’s classic photographs of rural Maine in the 1940s and 1950s are now being shared with the help of the Penobscot Marine Museum.
Perched on the rocky coastline of Maine’s Mount Desert Island, the Bass Harbor Head Light may be one of Maine’s most dramatic landmarks.