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By Greg Vine

ROYALSTON – In 1976, President Gerald Ford officially recognized February as Black History Month, stating at the time that the annual recognition gave Americans “the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of Black Americans in...

By Carla CharterThe New England Quilt Museum in Lowell has many different quilts, ranging from the 1800s to contemporary creations. Among those is a 78 x 71 coverlet made by Rebecca C. Ayers Mack Heywood of Winchendon.This coverlet was created by Mack...

By Carla CharterIt was not a bird, a plane or a UFO that Orange residents spied in the skies on Nov. 20, 1923.Instead, the Orange Enterprise and Journal on Nov. 23, 1923, reported that the U.S. Navy dirigible, the Shenandoah, which was out on a 13-and...

By Carla CharterWhen the Wendell Historical Society opens to the public, among the items on display will be a bear costume. The outfit signifies one small part of a much larger story of how community resistance saved Bear Mountain in Wendell.The story...

By Carla CharterWork is being done to preserve the site of the Poor Farm in Petersham. The cellar holes of the building and barn still exist, as does the paupers cemetery and monument to the indigent buried there.“We have gone out once with the...

By Carla CharterThe Millers River meanders through the Quabbin area. It is used for canoeing, kayaking and is at the heart of the Athol River Rat Race. Prior to the building of the Birch Hill and Tully dams, however, the river had a wilder side which...