New England’s Abandoned Stone Walls Deserve A Science Of Their Own
AncientPages.com – The abandoned fieldstone walls of New England are every bit as iconic to the region as lobster pots, town greens, sap buckets and fall foliage. They seem to be everywhere—a latticework of dry, lichen-crusted stone ridges separating a patchwork of otherwise moist soils. Stone walls can be found here and there in other states, but […]
The Day When The Sun Did Not Come Out – Bizarre Event In 1780, New England
A. Sutherland – AncietPages.com – We don’t know what it was or how it happened. According to newspapers and journals, it suddenly ‘arrived’ quickly from the West and did not dissipate until the following day. It frightened the inhabitants of New England. Today, we still don’t know much about what it was. Credit: Public Domain On […]
Who Was The Mysterious Old Leather Man?
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – When stories about the mysterious Old Leather Man started circulating, many wanted to know more about the unusual man. People said they had seen a strange vagabond walking all over New England. Sightings of the peculiar drifter were reported from 1883 to 1889, but who was he? The Old Leatherman […]