French settlers brought pralines to New Orleans in the 1700s, but the recipe has been adapted overtime ... It was first ...

Launching from Independence Park puts you right in the heart of the harbor, where you can paddle past historic waterfront homes, working docks, and the campus of Roger Williams University, whose ...

York can even claim England’s first almshouse, founded around 936AD in the time of King Athelstan, later becoming St Leonard’s Hospital. While this oldest example may no longer survive, York has one ...

Tucked along the shimmering waters of Narragansett Bay sits a New England treasure that somehow manages to fly under the radar of the summer crowds that swarm Newport and Block Island—a place where ...

Called athenaeums, a Greek word meaning "temple of Athena," the concept predates the traditional public library.