Diamond Jim Brady once spat out an oyster served him at New York’s Delmonico’s restaurant. “That’s not a Wellfleet oyster!” exclaimed the...
Once, when people traveled by rail, there was a delicacy that you simply had to have if you could get it: the...
Before Groucho Marx, before Johnny Carson and before Saturday Night Live, there was Fred Allen. A wildly popular radio comedian, he created...
Around 1900 on a small farm in Brookfield, Mass., Alan Wallace and his two brothers celebrated the holidays with handmade Christmas presents,...
As a young girl growing up in the rural village of Hollis, Maine, Kate Douglas Wiggin desperately wanted to see Charles Dickens...
In January 1971, WGBH-TV presented the first Masterpiece Theatre, made possible by a grant in 1836 from John Lowell, Jr. Really. John Lowell,...