Petroglyphs along the Connecticut River in Vermont have mystified people for centuries–but not the Abenaki, who carved them. The word “petroglyph” comes from the Greek “petra,” meaning stone, and “glypho,” …

During his lifetime, John Neal was as popular a novelist as Stephen King, as outspoken an activist as Gloria Steinem and as influential a critic as Harold Bloom. He’s forgotten …

Patience Boston, a 23-year-old Native American servant, was hanged in York, Maine, in 1734 for murdering a child. She confessed to the crime, but she had also confessed to two …

From the tall windows of Sempringham Hall, eleven-year-old Anne Dudley could see out over the vast marshy fenlands of Lincolnshire. Sheep grazed on the low green hills, and horse-drawn wagons …

A young British aristocrat, Capt. Emmanual Altham, lost his ship and nearly lost his life off the coast of Maine in the early 17th century. But this wasn’t the first …

Bowdoin College, chartered in 1794, is the oldest institution of higher education in Maine.  It is located in the small town of Brunswick in Cumberland County near Casco Bay and …