This edition features an article found on page 7 of the March 26, 1896, RANGELEY LAKES newspaper. It shares an anecdote on ...

The respected silversmith and his fellow messengers played a key role in the colonists’ first victory of the Revolutionary ...

I first created “THEN & NOW” 30 years (and three newspapers) ago to offer bite-sized, tempting morsels of history. But this ...

Jane Kamensky is the president and CEO of Monticello and the author of “A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton ...

It started in 1635 when Puritan minister Roger Williams was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for opposing ... of ...

This spring will mark the Semiquincentennial — the 250th anniversary — of the events of April 19, 1775. On that day, the ...

He arrived in America with the Puritans in 1624 and helped co-found the settlement of Merrymount, which is now Quincy, Massachusetts. But while the Puritans had mostly set out to create a new, pure ...

Anniversaries are a time to look back, to celebrate milestones and achievements; it is also a time to remember the misfortunes and hardships that some of the members of our society experienced leading ...

Waterbirds have seen a resurgence thanks to Gould Island's private nature, but efforts to open the island to recreation has created worry.

In a state as complex as Massachusetts with its 351 cities and towns, it takes a lot of people to make all the wheels turn. Some serve on Capitol Hill. Some serve on Beacon Hill. Others make their ...

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