New England is as unlikely a place as there is to celebrate a Christmas first. After all, Puritans in Massachusetts and Connecticut...
Born in Berlin, Conn. in 1787, Emma Willard was one of the first people – if not the first— to believe women...
One day at the Brownington school in Orleans County, Vermont, a youngster approached the front of the class to answer an arithmetic...
When John Deere was eight years old, his father left their home in Middlebury, Vt., and boarded a ship for England. He had received...