In 1718, five ships from Ulster arrived in Boston Harbor. Their passengers, Scots-Irish immigrants, came at the invitation of the Puritan leaders...
What’s a meeting house without a meeting house bell to summon townspeople? Customarily, early New England villages included a meeting house –...
In 1929, a depressed, divorced 51-year-old society matron decided to take up murder as a hobby. Frances Glessner Lee had just closed...
At age 20, Mildred Taylor Mills’ future seemed stable. Heir to her father’s modest fortune, the Westport, Conn., girl was “for a...
Richard Potter, the son of a former slave, won fame and fortune with a bag of magic tricks and a voice that...
Every election year, local and state election administrators across the country utter a prayer: “Please God, don’t let it be close!” Yet,...