The festival, held each year in rural Perkiomenville, Montgomery County, celebrates the life, food, and culture of 18th- and 19th-century German settlers. Volunteers making traditional potato candies, ...

Historic sites and museums are always looking for ways engage visitors and to bring history to life. For Tiffany Fisk, administrator at Mennonite Life's 1719 Museum (formerly the 1719 Herr House) one ...

When we think of the history of Lenawee County, our thoughts turn to the pioneers who came from western New York to settle Tecumseh, Blissfield and the surrounding areas. However, these 19th century ...

“What struck me was the very fact that these women had been entirely forgotten,” Julia Malye mused, thinking about the women who populate her new novel, “Pelican Girls.” These were women who were sent ...

When traversing the vast and diverse landscape of the United States — all of its 3,794,083 square miles (the world's third-largest country by size!) — one might be inclined to think of its relatively ...

In 985, Viking explorer Erik the Red led a group of Icelandic farmers to Greenland, where they established a settlement on the west coast. Archaeological evidence suggests that the settlement existed ...