Robert Frost owed a lot to his closest friend, Louis Untermeyer. Untermeyer, a preeminent literary critic, had supported his work and helped...
President John F. Kennedy managed to seduce reporters with witty retorts to their questions during presidential news conferences. Many JFK one-liners are...
On a bitterly cold day in the winter of 1779, the Dr. Simeon Smith family celebrated a Revolutionary Thanksgiving in Sharon, Conn....
When it comes to fish, the striped bass ranks right up there with the cod. It has for centuries. It kept the...
Martha Codman in 1928 shocked and titillated East Coast high society when she married an immigrant Jewish opera singer, Maxim Karolik. She...
In 1692, Satan came to Salem in Massachusetts colony and began to establish his kingdom. He started by cajoling and bullying his...
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