New England Travels

  WBZ-TV in Boston, which was New England’s first commercial television station (it began operation in the summer of 1948), broadcast ...

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

    And…we’re back.   I apologize for the longer than usual break in proceedings, but this is just to let you know that New England T...

Park Street Church, Boston, in warmer days.  A very Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it, and a Happy New Year to all.   In app...

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...

Ever do your Christmas shopping with these?   S&H Green Stamps, once the symbol of American Middle Class wish fulfillment, began w...

Perry Como and Lena Horne sing in Boston in 1965.  Here is a "New England" medley of songs: