A poignant story of one woman's determination to start a life anew in idyllic Nova Scotia, far away from her jetsetting-New Yorker roots.A working actress and divorced mother of two young boys takes off for the summer to the coast...

The history of Rock Island County, once known as the "farm implement capital of the world," starts well before that industry sprung up on the Mississippi River at a point where the river runs east to west. Fur trading, farming,...

Thirty years of full color images of Star Island, of the Isles of Shoals, off the coast of NH/ME. Parsons photographed the island, the historic hotel and buildings, the sea, and provides a visual essay of a place that has...

During the early 20th century, Grand Island was a unique and diverse community. No one captured this better than Julius Leschinsky. As Grand Island's premier photographer from the 1880s to the 1930s, Leschinsky immortalized a time of great change...

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In the early 1600s, Capt. John Smith explored the Chesapeake Bay from Jamestown. On the Eastern Shore of Maryland, he found dozens of small islands, including a chain of three islands that later came to be named Hoopers Island. Fifty...

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a small group of Jewish immigrants carved out their own vibrant community in Staten Island. Jewish settlers clustered around the Arietta Street, St. George, Bergen Point, and Perth Amboy ferries and...

Four communities along Deal Island Road in Somerset County form the area known as Deal Island. Legend says the island was originally called Devils Island and was settled by pirates. Deal Island served as a prominent landmark as Capt....

Parris Island boasts a rich history reaching back before even the first U.S. Marines were stationed here in 1891. These images illustrate the Marines, the events, and the everyday scenes that make up Parris Island's story. ...

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