Arts and Leisure
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4.8KFootball’s Death Harvest of 1905, or How Teddy Roosevelt Saved the Grid Game
Teddy Roosevelt loved the rough-and-tumble of football the way college athletes played it back in 1895. He even wrote a letter saying...
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3.0KWhy Do We Say Hello? Thank Connecticut
You won’t find the word “Hello” in any plays by Shakespeare, letters by John Adams, Webster’s early dictionaries, newspapers, poems, or novels...
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3.5KOld Town Canoe, Inspired by the Penobscot People
The Old Town Canoe Company couldn’t have started in a better place when it built its first canoe more than a hundred...
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4.3KMarilyn Monroe in Connecticut: The Misfit
As implausible as Marilyn Monroe in Connecticut may seem today, it’s where she thought her most cherished dream would come true. When...
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6.7KThe Extraordinary Voyage of the Charles W. Morgan
In 1916, a 72-year-old sea captain named Benjamin Cleveland decided to take a 75-year-old wooden vessel on one last voyage. So Cleveland,...
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4.0KAshley Bryan, the Maine Man Who Showed the World Black Is Beautiful
Ashley Bryan was not what you’d expect living in the Cranberry Isles, a fishing community off Acadia National Park. Born in Harlem...
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