Black Sam Bellamy was one of history’s most successful pirates. His most famous capture was a former slave ship called the Whydah — on which he lost his life during a fateful storm off the coast of Cape Cod.

WSHU's Davis Dunavin begins this season with one of history's most notorious pirate ships — the Whydah Galley — and its captain, Black Sam Bellamy. He was one of history's most successful pirates until his dramatic death in a shipwreck off the coast of Cape Cod.

Betty and Barney Hill were at the center of one of America’s most famous alien abduction cases. They were also an interracial couple and civil rights leaders at the time. But their alleged abduction on a late night in New Hampshire in 1961 — set them on a different path, according to a new book.

Two people on a road trip in New Hampshire in 1961 were at the center of one of America’s first high-profile alien abduction cases. Their account of that night set the tone for how we imagine extraterrestrials today.

Betty and Barney Hill said they had an encounter with aliens more than 60 years ago. Their story became the launching point for alien abductions in popular culture. They said it happened late one night on a lonely road in New Hampshire’s White Mountains.

Andrew Wyeth’s 1948 painting “Christina’s World” shows the reality of life for his longtime friend, a woman with a disability, on her farm in coastal Maine.

“Christina’s World” is one of the most recognizable American paintings of the 20th century. It’s set in the coastal landscape of Maine. Artist Andrew Wyeth and his subject Christina still fascinates us 75 years later.

A mysterious rock in New Hampshire has sparked decades of theories.

Benton MacKaye proposed the trail in the days after the tragic death of his wife — "an important walker in her own right."

The Appalachian Trail stretches more than 2,000 miles from Maine to Georgia. It was the brainchild of an idealistic forester who drew inspiration from a mountaintop in Vermont.