All posts tagged "Brooklyn"
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5.1K1MassachusettsHow John Adams Became A “Church going Animal”
It took a lifetime of study and reflection for John Adams to come up with his religious credo. In the end, the...
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7.1K1ConnecticutBlack Husband, White Scientist: The Secret Double Life of Clarence King
In 1888, Clarence King started to lead two secret lives, one on each side of the Brooklyn Bridge. In Manhattan, he was...
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6.6K1Religion and Social MovementsJohn Humphrey Noyes Finds Out Sex and Silverware Don’t Mix
John Humphrey Noyes started out in the 19th century as a conventional Yale-trained minister until he found out he was perfect and...
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7.9K1MassachusettsThe Northampton National Bank Heist, the Biggest in U.S. History
On the morning of Jan. 26, 1876, a woman screamed from her bedroom window that burglars had robbed the Northampton National Bank...
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7.2K3MaineHow John Marin, America’s Greatest Artist, Vanished from Sight
John Marin, voted America’s greatest artist in 1948, looked like an aging Beatle. An admirer described him as having bangs that reached...
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3.6K1MassachusettsLouis B. Mayer Goes to Hollywood — By Way of a Run-Down Burlesque Theater in Haverhill, Mass.
In 1907, 23-year-old Louis B. Mayer visited a run-down, dingy burlesque theater in Haverhill, Mass., and saw his fabulous future. Then called...
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9.0K1ConnecticutThe Hartford Insurance Story: One Man, One Bold Stroke, One Insurance Capital
In 1835 Connecticut’s Eliphalet Terry assumed leadership of a small Hartford insurance firm. Within one year, and with one master stroke, he...
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31.0K7Arts and LeisureHow To Talk Rhode Island
To talk Rhode Island requires more than a passing knowledge of the expression ‘No school Fosta Glosta’ or the difference between a...
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13.1K5ConnecticutRevolutionary War Veteran Joseph Plumb Martin Tells of the Soldier’s Life
In 1775 the American Revolution looked like the adventure of a lifetime to a boy of just 14. Joseph Plumb Martin stood...
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14.1K3ConnecticutThe 1919 Christmas Eve Massacre and the Mobster Who Got Away With Murder
On Christmas Eve and Christmas day in 1919 a tidal wave of patients began showing up at the hospitals in Western Massachusetts...
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