QUINCY − In a growing city with a long history, the old and the new inevitably clash. That is happening now in the Adams Birthplace Historical District, just to the south of the city's downtown, where ...

Chef Staib honors Adams with a classic New England Boiled Dinner. John Adams, the 2nd President, is arguably one of our most important founding fathers, but he feared history would not remember him.

QUINCY − Presidents Day is a big deal in Quincy. The city is home to the second and sixth U.S. presidents. It calls itself the City of Presidents. Quincy High School's nickname is The Presidents. Even ...

This story was originally published in the Globe Magazine on Nov. 5, 2000. You’re John Adams. You take a bunch of cautious Continental Congressmen gathered to write a complaint letter, and you brow ...

In 1819, 18 years after leaving the White House, John Adams fretted that “Mausoleums, Statues, Monuments will never be erected to me. … Panegyrical romances will never be written, nor flattering ...

For Norfolk County Register of Deeds William P. O’Donnell, Presidents Day has always had a special significance. “People may not know that four of the 46 presidents of the United States were born ...

John Adams was born on October 30, 1735, in Braintree, Massachusetts. His father, a farmer and deacon, hoped that Adams would enter the clergy, but his Harvard professors thought his propensity for ...