There was no reason why the U.S. Marshal should spend the night on board the cramped, smelly little freight schooner he was ...

Key West lost one of its most colorful and legendary characters: Captain Finbar Gittelman, who will never be forgotten on the ...

Built by Cornelius Vanderbilt II, who was one of the richest men in America at the turn of the 19th century ... or 48-foot ...

Simon Parker is so enamored with off the beaten track America, that he has cycled across the nation twice. Here are 23 of his ...

Mystic Seaport is already the nation's largest maritime museum, with a 19th century village ... around the Canadian shore on this knockabout sloop. At day's end, that sailor, not yet 40, had ...

Colonial-era homes with their sturdy proportions and practical designs anchor corners where 21st-century life unfolds against an 18th ... featuring salvaged items from the HMS DeBraak, a British sloop ...

A house in Groton with ties to a 19th century sea captain, Captain Silas Beebe, has hit the market for $3.95 million.

‘There is this intense rise in fascism’: Simon McBurney on a 19th-century opera that feels painfully familiar on facebook (opens in a new window) ‘There is this intense rise in fascism ...

ELLISVILLE, Miss. (WDAM) - A teenager has been arrested for arson after a devastating fire that destroyed a 19th-century home in Ellisville this past weekend. Christopher Walker, 18, of Ellisville ...

Friel’s characters are mostly involved in a so-called Hedge School, in essence the equivalent of joint home-schooling in 19th century Ireland, where Gaelic is the dominant language. (Most people ...