All posts tagged "World War I"
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4.0K8ConnecticutRobert Remington Fights World War I
Robert Remington looked much younger than his 17 years when he joined the U.S. Army at Yale Field on April 23, 1917,...
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2.7K1ConnecticutConnecticut’s Enormous World War I Archive
Connecticut owes its enormous World War I archive to George Godard, the state librarian during World War I. Godard had hoarding tendencies....
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8.9K1ConnecticutPolly Peabody, The Bohemian Blueblood Who Invented the Bra
Inventing the bra was possibly the least interesting thing Polly Peabody did in her life. Born Mary Phelps Jacob, she was called...
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13.0K4MaineSix New England Presidential Visits and the Stories Behind Them
New England is full of sites that hosted past presidential visits as the country’s leaders came north in search of votes, campaign...
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7.9K4Rhode IslandPasta la Vista – F.P. Ventrone Sparks the Providence Macaroni Riots
The summer of 1914 was a flash-point for the Italian immigrant families living in Providence, R.I. Squeezed on one side by an...
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4.3K3ConnecticutThe Lusitania Survivor Who Founded Hill-Stead Museum
Lusitania survivor Theodate Pope was given up for dead when rescuers pulled her inert body from the Irish Sea with boat hooks....
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8.4K2ConnecticutThe 1919 Christmas Eve Massacre and the Mobster Who Got Away With Murder
On Christmas Eve and Christmas day in 1919 a tidal wave of patients began showing up at the hospitals in Western Massachusetts...
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3.4K5MaineSix Churches (All Gorgeous) Designed by Ralph Adams Cram
Once the most famous architect of his day, Ralph Adams Cram designed many churches (mostly Episcopal), schools and libraries in New England....
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2.7KConnecticutThe Tungsten Light Bulb Scandal of 1908
John Allen Heany managed to fool some of the people with his tungsten light bulb, but he couldn't fool General Electric. In...
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9.8K2Maine6 Places That Became a Summer White House
The summer White House has been a feature of presidential life since John Adams returned to Quincy, Mass., to get away from...