Joyce Chaplin's new book "The Franklin Stove" is out now. (Book cover courtesy Farrar, Straus and Giroux; author photo courtesy Saffron Sener) The winter of 1740-41 was exceptionally cold and ...

For 47 million American households, cooking means a gas stove. Gas stoves generate gases that aren't good for people's health and the gas itself contributes to climate change.

The Franklin Fire Company said the special services task force responded to a fire at A J Stoves and Pellets. Crews are tackling a fire at a pellet company in Franklin County.The Franklin Fire ...

House Republicans say they're honoring the sitting president with their unprecedented bills. Historians see something darker.

And Ben Franklin was a great innovator of his time. He was not only known for the Franklin stove and bifocals and the lightning rod and figuring out electricity, but he was an amazing politician ...

The colonists were too busy establishing settlements to concern themselves much with comfort, as in … staying warm. So, up through the 1800s, they built their ...

Known for his kite experiment, he proved lightning was electricity and invented the lightning rod, bifocals and Franklin stove. He also founded the first public library and the University of ...

If you somehow have Monday off, Lamplighter Brewing Cx is hosting a Buffy the Vampire Slayer anniversary marathon, 1-7pm. Tuesday, 3/11 🌊 Emily Norton of the Charles River Watershed Association ...

Lead manager Serena Perin Vinton joined Franklin Templeton in 1991 and has managed large-growth funds for the firm since 1996. In that year, she was named a comanager of Franklin Capital Growth ...

In honor of his mother and others imprisoned at the internment camp, baseball player Dan Kwong has restored a diamond in the ...

Known for his kite experiment, he proved lightning was electricity and invented the lightning rod, bifocals and Franklin stove. He also founded the first public library and the University of ...

It's a curious statement to find one-third of the way into a book titled "Abundance." Not 10% of Americans live or work in ...