Three Portsmouth fires, all at Christmas, destroyed 500 buildings within a decade in the early 19th century. Miraculously, no one died in...
When Dutch elm disease first appeared in southwestern Connecticut, horrified New Englanders responded immediately to save their beloved elms, state agriculture experts...
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If you know anything about Rhode Island, you know the quahog is sacred and peculiar to America’s smallest and wateriest state. But...
The Wallingford Tornado of 1878 ranks as one of the worst natural disasters to ever strike Connecticut. It caused so much damage...
In 1888, Clarence King started to lead two secret lives, one on each side of the Brooklyn Bridge. In Manhattan, he was...