In John Irving’s next book, the author is returning to St. Cloud’s, Maine, and to the orphanage made famous in his acclaimed ...

The novelist John Irving is famous for telling stories set in his native New England and in Austria, the site of a pivotal ...

Roses are red, violets are blue. Bet you didn't know the modern Valentine's Day card originated in Massachusetts, did you?

In late October, Marion “Rollen” Chalmers stood next to a rice field ringed by pines and palm trees. He pointed out roseate ...