Arts and Leisure
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2.4KGordon Bennett, the Madcap, Scandal-Mongering Publisher Who Built the Newport Casino
Today in Britain people utter ‘Gordon Bennett’ when someone says something unbelievable, disgusting, surprising or outrageous. They probably don’t know they’re referring...
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2.7K1Oscar Wilde Stirs Up Boston
In an early display of homophobia, 60 Harvard students dressed up like the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde when he delivered a lecture...
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3.3KJack Kerouac Fantasy Baseball (Yes, That Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac invented a fantasy baseball game with homemade cards that he played well into adulthood. After he played the games, he...
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3.1KThe American Winston Churchill, Once More Famous Than the Other
Back in the early 20th century, an American Winston Churchill got a letter from a young war correspondent of the same name....
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2.8K1The Many Loves of Margarett Sargent McKean, Mad Brahmin Artist
For half her life, Margarett Sargent struggled against the strictures and demands of her Boston Brahmin upbringing. Then for the other half,...
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4.9KMay Alcott, Forever Shadowed by Older Sister Louisa
May Alcott, the real Amy March in Louisa May Alcott’s semi-autobiographical novel Little Women, struggled all her life to win success as...
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7.6KWhen Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Honeymooned (and Partied) in Westport, Conn.
In 1920, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald honeymooned in Westport, Conn., so he could write, she could swim and they could both party...
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3.1KA Green Mountain Boy Stars in an 1839 Romance Novel, Heaving Bosoms and All
Green Mountain Boy Seth Warner might have been a forgotten Revolutionary War hero had he not appeared in an 1839 romance novel....
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3.4KSix More Artist Homes In New England
The creative spirit that moves people to sculpt and paint also tends to inspire an interesting artist home. Lucrative commissions in the...
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4.5K1Six Beautiful Buildings Designed by Asher Benjamin
Asher Benjamin, a young country housewright, published a book in 1797 that is responsible for the way much of early New England...
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