The War of 1812 is one of our forgotten wars, skimmed over in school lessons and rarely the subject of movies. To the British ...

From Gothic castles and creaking mansions to centuries-old graveyards that terrify after dark, the world is filled with ...

Axe throwing: Try out Stumpy's Hatchet House, 3728 Liberty St., which offers a variety of hatchet and axe throwing target ...

Unleash adventure in the Thousand Islands with these new Jet Car Boats. It's one of the most unique ways to navigate the St.

The U.S. Brig Niagara has arrived at a Maine shipyard where it will undergo a $5 million refit expected to last a year. On June 5, the ship arrived in Bristol Marine’s Sample’s Shipyard in Boothbay ...

One of America’s most historic tall ships, the U.S. Brig Niagara, has arrived in Maine for a comprehensive, year-long ...

A dozen or more times, I’ve driven by and ignored the entrance to the Tom Ridge Environmental Center on the threshold of Presque Isle in Erie. I recently visited Erie for the annual conference of the ...

Lake Erie borders the southeastern tip of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. A state park features camping, fishing and sandy beaches. Several historic lighthouses line Michigan's coast overlooking Lake ...

Toy Soldiers, a monument to the War of 1812 in Toronto ... mostly of a series of cross-border skirmishes along the Great Lakes and in northern Maine, and a series of naval battles along the ...

"An incipient kind of manifest destiny" drove many in the rural South and what was then the American West, the territory stretching up the Mississippi basin to the Great Lakes, said University of ...

America’s first depression had its origin in 1816 when Britain—having just won a world war against Napoleon ... by smuggling wheat across the Great Lakes to Canada, where Toronto and Montreal ...