New England Travels

Old Burying Ground, Chicopee, Mass. - photo by JT Lynch There was a village green in front of the first Meeting House in 1775. In Co...

Happy Independence Day! The Minuteman statue at the Concord Bridge in Minute Man National Park was made here in Chicopee under the directi...

George Washington visited the oldest synagogue in this nation (founded in the 1600s) at Newport, Rhode Island.  His remarks on the Touro ...

Photo by JT Lynch Prince Hall was a Revolutionary soldier, born a slave in 1735, and freed a month after the Boston Massacre.  He e...

A few fun trivia questions from Yankee Talk - A Dictionary of New England Expressions , compiled by Robert Hendrickson and published by Fact...

In honor of the coming Memorial Day holiday, a lonely windswept hilltop grave in Coventry, Connecticut.  Here lies Major Thomas Brown, wh...

This sign showing a giant green splotch on the Connecticut River Valley, illustrates the extent of commercial tobacco growing in wester...

Local legend has it that the first time a Christmas tree was put up and decorated in the United States of America appears to have occurr...

You can see Boston through the masts, which are truncated in this shot. The USS Constitution was undergoing a little refurbishment whe...

Pausing to chat, a couple of Colonial soldiers visit with the statue of one of their leaders, Major General Joseph Warren here inside th...

The small boy dressed in Colonial clothing striding across the Old Granary Burial Ground is not a ghost, even though the modern-dressed...

A little walk from New Hampshire to Vermont involves a little bridge.  Here we begin in Hanover, New Hampshire in the northern part of the ...

A bastion of stalwart, stubborn history, a Federalist style building is flanked, almost threateningly, by later 19th century examples of ar...

On this day, like the rock says, 1,000 Hessian mercenaries passed through the small village of North New Salem in central Massachusetts.   ...

A copy can sometimes tell its own original story. We mentioned the Avenue of States at the Eastern States Exposition a couple of weeks ago...

Before we say goodbye to April, we might recall that solid, rhythmic dirge, “On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five/Hardly a man is n...