Mass Audubon purchased Palmer Brook – the 858-acre Becket property formerly known as the Berkshire Fishing Club – on May 4, ...

The first glimpse audiences have of Marta Becket is that of the 81-year-old entertainer walking onstage wearing a black dress with a red feather boa. With her face painted, her eyes intense and her ...

Mass Audubon has purchased the former Berkshire Fishing Club in Becket for land conservation and habitat protection.

The town of Becket passed all but one of the 24 articles on this year's annual town meeting warrant. Most articles passed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2005 file photo, surrounded by a mural depicting 16th century Spain, audience members wait in the Amargosa ...

The 12th-century martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket is one of those grisly chapters of history seemingly plucked from the script of a gore-laden HBO show. Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was cut ...

On Dec. 29, 1170, the archbishop of Canterbury was cut down in his own cathedral. “Every attempt to tell the story of Thomas Becket,” writes Michael Staunton in his biography of the martyred ...

Relics from the centuries-old crime scene will go on show at the British Museum’s first major exhibition about the medieval martyr For centuries it was the world’s most notorious state-sanctioned ...

THE assassination of Thomas Becket is known as one of the famous, shocking, and violent murders in history. But just what happened between Becket and King Henry II to lead to the then Archbishop of ...

More has been written about Thomas Becket, the archbishop hacked to death in Canterbury Cathedral exactly 850 years ago, than any other non-royal English person of the Middle Ages. And yet it seems it ...