New England Travels

  photo by JT Lynch All tracks lead to the Railroad Hobby Show this weekend on the grounds of the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfi...

My book,  Children’s Wartime Adventure Novels , is now available in paperback at the Broadside Bookshop in Northampton.   A non-fiction stud...

  We New Englanders just marked in June the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill.  This flag of New England was flown and carried ...

  It's no mystery, NOBODY killed candlepin bowling.  It is still alive in New England, even if more and more bowling alleys offer only t...

More than 100 people died of a companionable drink in several towns and cities in New England on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day 1919, nearl...

I'm very pleased to announce that my newest book -- the seventh in my Double V Mysteries series, is going to be published soon! On this ...

 photo by JT Lynch It's that time of year again!  Visit New England's great state(s) fair in West Springfield, Massachusetts.  Behin...

    Here are three postcard views of the Westfield River in Agawam, Massachusetts.  They are all published by the Springfield News Company a...

Have a look at a nostalgic view of New England in this travelogue film from the 1940s.  Summer in New England is something eternal. Or watch...

  Looking for Christmas gifts for the historical mystery lover -- who also happens to love New England?   My "Double V Mysteries" ...

  Zoom presentation on BESIDE THE STILL WATERS - the "lost towns" of the Quabbin Reservoir I will be giving an online Zoom present...

The infamous Lizzie Borden, who was said in the children's rhyme to have "took an axe and gave her mother 40 whacks...etc.," ...

  Hampton Ponds, Westfield, Massachusetts, from a postcard published in the early 1900s.  Today, the Hampton Ponds State Park now borders th...

The home of inventor and industrialist Everett Hosmer Barney (1835-1916) - probably most famous for two things: inventing the clamp-on ice s...

  Here is a link to my recorded Zoom talk  earlier this month on the historical background of my novel Beside the Still Waters  for the Holy...

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...

Coming in December -- the latest in my Double V Mysteries series - MURDER AT THE SUMMER THEATER. Casey Koester did the marvelo...

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

"Sophie" photo by Lewis W. Hine, 1911, Library of Congress In celebration of Women’s History Month, I will be presenting...

English novelist Charles Dickens came on a book tour to the U.S. in 1842, the first of his trips to America. He was already famous, ...