Women from Massachusetts colleges served as code breakers during World War II
By Sharon Oliver
Contributing Writer
REGION - Fans of the British drama series “The Bletchley Circle” are already familiar with the wartime code breaking women of...
The WGBH Channel Two-Mobile was quite the sight on local roadways
By Sharon Oliver
Contributing Writer
BOSTON - The average person of a certain age can remember Oscar Meyer’s Wienermobile commercials. However, there is one special advertising...
The Palace nightclub in Saugus offered something for everyone
By Colin McCandless
Contributing Writer
SAUGUS - To those who once experienced it either as patrons or staff, the Palace nightclub in Saugus belongs in the...
The Blackstone Canal connected Worcester to the Atlantic Ocean
By Michael Perna Jr.
Contributing Writer
WORCESTER - In the early 1800s, a group of businessmen from Massachusetts and Rhode Island had an idea of how...
Horror writer H. P. Lovecraft set many of his tales in Massachusetts
By Sharon Oliver
Contributing Writer
REGION - Howard Phillips “H.P.” Lovecraft may have been from Providence, Rhode Island but the famous writer of weird, horror, fantasy,...
Robert “The Bear” Fawcett was a Boston police legend
By Sharon Oliver
Contributing Writer
BOSTON - He may not have worn a trilby hat or walked around with a lollipop in his mouth like television’s...
