Arts and Leisure
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9.8K2Over the River and Through the Wood: 7 Fun Facts
The author of Over the River and Through the Wood was very unlike the other author who wrote a favorite holiday song...
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5.5KJacques Pepin, French From Connecticut
Jacques Pepin and Julia Child were serving up mashed sweet potatoes during a televised cooking show just before Thanksgiving in 2000. Julia...
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5.5K5Eight Great Zingers by Bette Davis, Yankee Gal
The legendary movie actress Bette Davis called herself the “Yankee-est gal who ever came down the pike.” She was born and educated...
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3.5KSix Fun Facts About Kurt Vonnegut on Cape Cod
Kurt Vonnegut wrote the kind of books that students in the 1960s bought to stoke their outrage and disdain. Outrage over the...
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17.2K3How Ptown Got So Gay, Gay, Gay
Ptown, as so many know it, was once a shabby old seaport that had fallen on hard times. Yankees lived on one...
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4.8KThe Mark Twain Fantasy Menu
Mark Twain liked a good meal, a good cigar and a good cocktail. During a trip to Europe in the 1880s, he...
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2.8KGordon 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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3.1K1Oscar 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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4.1KJack 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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3.5KThe 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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