New England Travels

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...

Fifty years is a long time, but still only the blink of an eye in the measure of eras, only one small thread in the enormous tapestry o...

The iconic red bridge has known its lonely moments, but this is not one of them. On a spanking fresh fall day, the West Cornwall Covere...

This coming Saturday, April 21st, the Titanic Historical Society of Indian Orchard, Massachusetts is dedicating a new memorial to two of the...

(Don't forget to scroll down to the bottom of this page to mute the music so you can hear the newsreel.) The Flood of 1955 came fr...

In late July 1956, the ocean liner SS Andrea Doria sank on the last night of its transatlantic voyage from Italy to New York City when a...

RMS Titanic photo 1912 from New York World-Telegram, now in the collection of the Library of Congress, public domain. Ninety-eight years ...

Devastating earthquakes, most recently in Haiti and in Chile, draw our sympathy and response with aide to the anguished people suffering the...

You are here on Route 47, South Hadley, Massachusetts. This Connecticut River Valley town has seen its share of floods, and this weather tot...

You’ve heard the saying about someone being as slow as molasses in January. On January 15, 1919, The Boston Molasses Disaster, sometimes cal...

We had touched upon the Influenza epidemic of 1918-1919 on my Tragedy and Comedy in New England blog last week. With the H1N1 flu and the r...

Eastport, Maine, the nation’s easternmost city, is the home of this easternmost whimsical statue. We’ve covered whimsical statues before, l...

(All photos accompanying this post are by J.T. Lynch) The above photo shows a park-like setting in the background, and a hopscotch game ...