Suzanne DeWitt

Entertainment icon and supercrooner Robert Goulet was born in Lawrence in 1933. He lived in the city’s Tower Hill neighborhood until he was 13.

Community cookbooks are time capsules in print, capturing eras, locations, and sometimes even subcultures. They also can make you giggle.

Hasty pudding is a slow-cooked concoction of corn meal, milk, eggs, molasses and spices. Perfect for the cold weather, with rich historical roots.

In a region as old as ours, reports of hauntings are plentiful. And when there are ghosts, there are sure to be people who hunt them.

The story of Helen Keller and herteacher has its roots in the MV. A sculpture in Tewksbury depicts Anne Sullivan teaching Helen her first miraculous word.  

Did you know that the world’s strongest man lived right here in the Valley? Cyprien-Noé (Louis) Cyr apparently got his strength from his mother’s side.

Andover’s Lanam Club was established in 1957 by a group of businessmen and named to reflect the region: L for Lawrence, A for Andover, NA…

Did you ever wonder why animal shelters used to be called pounds? The structures were used to house animals that wandered around getting into trouble.

Helen Gertrude Swasey was well known in her hometown of Haverhill from the time she was a young girl until her death in 1934. She was…

Haverhill’s hometown heroes tend to have a little badass in them – Andre Dubus III and Rob Zombie for example. Hannah Duston certainly was one in the 1600s.

Adventureland in Newbury opened the summer of 1957. A map of the amusement park shows its position on the corner of U.S. Route 1 and Scotland Road,…

Stop by the Emma L. Andrews Library & Community Center in Newburyport and experience how libraries used to work. You won’t find bar codes or…