All posts tagged "Berlin"
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14.1K1Crime and ScandalMaine’s Mildred Gillars Wanted Fame and She Got It in WWII
Mildred Gillars paid a price for the fame she craved so desperately. She became one of the most hated women in America...
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36.6K6New HampshireA German POW Escapes the WWII Prison Camp in Stark, N.H.
German POW Franz Bacher escaped the World War II prison camp in Northern New Hampshire on Aug. 1, 1944, eluding a manhunt...
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7.3K5Arts and LeisureHow Basketball History (and Basketball) Was Made in Springfield, Mass., in 1891
If it weren’t for a bad case of cabin fever, basketball history would never have been made. Nor, for that matter, would...
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7.0K2VermontGeorge Seldes, The Last Great Muckraker, Never Tired of Protesting Even at 104
When George Seldes died in 1995 at the age of 104, a delegation of investigative journalists journeyed to his home in Hartland...
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23.5K19Business and LaborThe Glory Days of the Berlin Turnpike
In the early 1950s, the king of Connecticut’s roads was the Berlin Turnpike, lined with colorful kitschy roadside architecture. It was the main...
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14.8K7Business and LaborBrownie Wise, The Brains Behind Tupperware
In 1950, Earl Tupper was sitting in his Leominster, Mass., office struggling with how to get his business off the ground when...
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