This is another post in my series of stories about 20th Century Americana, which I use as story starters and for helping with oral histori...

HERE AT NEW BOSTON, N.H. ROGER W. BABSON AND HIS ASSOCIATES PIONEERED IN ACTIVE RESEARCH FOR ANTI-GRAVITY AND A PARTIAL GRAVIT...

This weekend we wandered up to Allenstown, New Hampshire to visit Bear Brook State Park. There is a small museum complex there with a C...

As we brought in the bird feeders, stocked up on batteries, and prepared for Hurricane Sandy, we remembered past hurricanes and storms.  I...

Near Cherry Street in Gloucester, in a large tract of conservation land surrounding the reservoir, you can find the remnants of an early v...

In 1881 Jason F. Draper and John Maynard established a glove factory in Plymouth, New Hampshire.  In 1882 they began producing baseball ...

Last night online a genealogist  asked  "How did our ancestors survive heat waves?"  I know that when I was growing up in the 1960...

The news lately has all been weather and earth related. Frigid temperatures, tsunamis, earthquakes, mud slides, and here in New Hampshire an...

In New England it has always been common to eat peas and salmon for the 4th of July, harkening back to a time when people ate seasonally. ...

United Shoe Machinery Corporation was a major employer in Beverly, Massachusetts. The locals called it “The Shoe,” and when it began manuf...