With the rank of captain, he led a Massachusetts militia force — which has at times been erroneously identified as Minutemen — in a fateful engagement. Parker had served as a soldier in the ...

BOSTON — Robert B. Parker, the blunt and beloved crime novelist who helped revive and modernize the hard-boiled genre and branded a tough guy of his own through his “Spenser” series ...

The Parker River National Wildlife Refuge’s Artist of the Month is award winner Don Jalbert of Epping, New Hampshire. Jalbert ...

“He’s a Massachusetts man of the people ... Reform or die. Kathleen Parker is a syndicated columnist with the Washington Post Writers Group. Readers may e-mail her at|kathleenparker@ ...

Ben was born Feb. 27, 1925 in Lowell, MA, a son of the late Arthur Benjamin Parker, Sr. and Ruth (D’Mooers) Parker. Mr. Parker attended the Morey School, and the Lowell High school. He graduated ...