NEWCASTLE -- Al Smith had a problem. The federal government had given him permission to drill for oil on land just east of Newcastle, but time was running out on the go-ahead. It was either drill it ...

Driving a country road, I passed an old well house. It didn’t look like a wishing well. It looked rustic, more like a shed, a practical structure. I stopped and took a photo of the well. Right by it ...

LOWELL — Years before Market Street or even the city of Lowell existed, someone dug a well, by hand, in the dirt of the farmland that would eventually become the Acre neighborhood. And for an ...