New England Travels

Even though the signal lights aren't flashing, always be careful crossing railroad tracks like these here in Chester, Vermont.  In ...

Phyllis Thaxter died a week ago on August 14th. Though many will remember her film and TV roles beginning in the 1940s and ‘50s, throug...

A reader, John Y., recently contacted me with these two great scans of postcards of the Tremont Theater. I put them up on my Tragedy and C...

Today is National Lighthouse Day. We mark the establishment of America’s lighthouses through act of Congress in 1789 on this day. The lig...

We interrupt this blog for another in our continuing series of annoying announcements: the second book in my new “cozy” mystery series ...

Have a look at the Hindenburg flying over Hartford, Connecticut in October, 1936, from what is apparently someone's home movie.  Note t...

This map has been making the rounds on the Internet.  I don't know who created it, but I leave you to decide on the accuracy of the cart...