Police cited more than 500 people a year for wrong-way driving in Massachusetts each of the past two years. That’s significantly more than in previous years going back almost a decade.
George Robert Twelves Hewes was a local shoemaker who participated in a lot of events leading up to the American Revolution. Now, the Old South Meeting House in Boston is sharing more of his story with artifacts and testimony.
An automobile race across the United States was held in 1909, when many up-and-coming car manufacturers were throwing their hats in this new age of transportation. And for one of these up-and-comers was a little, unknown factory from Stoneham, Massachusetts: Shawmut. It's all detailed in Boston-based author Eric Moskowitz's new book, "The Hardest, Longest Race."
You can catch three different celestial events this month: a partial solar eclipse, the Perseids meteor shower and a near-full lunar eclipse. Here's when and how you can see each of them.