Crime & Scandal
Gershon Marx went to the gallows at Connecticut’s Wethersfield State Prison no May 18, 1905 at the age of 73, leaving behind a wife, children …
Arts & Leisure
The Pukwudgies still haunt the Bridgewater Triangle. At least that’s what generations of people in southeastern Massachusetts have believed. Long before reports of strange events …
Politics & Military
Although no Civil War battles were fought in Rhode Island, one of the Union’s largest military hospitals stood in Portsmouth. Lovell General Hospital cared for …
Business & Labor
A virtual unknown from Northern New England invented both the steamboat and the internal combustion engine. Sometime before his death in 1843, Samuel Morey even …
Religion & Social Movements
Ralph Waldo Emerson supplied the ideas. Charles Stearns Wheeler helped put them into practice. From 1836 to 1842, Wheeler edited Emerson’s manuscripts, prepared publications and …
Science & Nature
When the English Puritans crossed the Atlantic to build their city upon a hill, they brought more than Bibles, woolens, farm implements and a dislike …
