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'Amazing Race' starts tonight from America's oldest seaport
Amazing Race
September 26, 2010
'Amazing Race' starts tonight from Gloucester, Massachusetts, America's oldest seaport.But don't expect the 11 teams from season 17...
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Matthew Thornton felt a duty to God to take up arms in defense
Declaration of Independence
May 28, 2012
Born in Ireland in 1714, Matthew Thornton was three when he immigrated to America with his parents, James Thornton and Elizabeth Malone. They...
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Robamacare is working
Politics
May 22, 2012
Neither candidate is talking about the fact that the Massachusetts healthcare program designed by Mitt Romney is working. This is the program that...
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John Hancock made it easy for King George III to view his signature
Declaration of Independence
May 16, 2012
Born on January 12, 1737, in Quincy/Braintree, Massachusetts, John Hancock began life in deprivation, but during his childhood, things changed for...
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Deborah Sampson masqueraded as Robert Shurtlief in the Continental Army
Military Appreciation
May 14, 2012
It has been said the stubbornness of a woman is sometimes a situation a man finds incapable of handling; especially when she has her cap set to...
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Great Barrington hopes to create W.E.B. Du Bois National Historic Site
web du bois
April 29, 2012
Part 19 in a series: What's the next national park?The co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and...
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Celebrate Steampunk with Neil Gaiman and William Gibson!
#steampunk
March 26, 2012
If you go to the official website for Waltham, Massachusetts' Watch City Festival, you'll find a banner that boasts, "Waltham, the...
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Another Kennedy runs for Congress (Video)
Joseph Kennedy III
February 16, 2012
Another political hopeful with the famous family and last name - Kennedy - is running for U.S. Congress.Joseph P. Kennedy III, the great-nephew of...
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Dentist jailed after using paper clips in dental procedures
Paper Clip Dentist
January 31, 2012
Dentists! Many of us have a healthy paranoia about visiting dentists - and for good reasons - like the painful needles in the gums, the...
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Massachusetts Lt. Gov. Tim Murray falls asleep traveling 108mph without seatbelt
Travel
January 4, 2012
The Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, Tim Murray, crashed his car on I-190 in Sterling, Massachusettson November 2, 2010 while he was...
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