NORWELL — Two of the town's oldest homes continue to be privately owned while remaining tangible links to early Colonial ...

The coup de grâce against Bouguereau was delivered by the Impressionists, who took the art world by storm in Paris in 1874. Left: Hunter Biden masterpiece; right: Bouguereau self portrait.

Global-superpower politics played a part, as did religion. But it was economic issues that drove talks of formal union in the late 1690s after several years of famine and a failed colonial ...

(March 6, 2025) de Crèvecoeur, in his 1782 “Letters from an American Farmer,” famously noted how the maritime economy of Nantucket engendered independence and self- reliance among the island’s women.