Samuel Bemis was a Boston dentist who bought one of the first cameras in America in 1840 and took the first known...
Iconic paintings capture the essence of a place or a person. American Gothic, for example, reveals the stoic plainness of the rural...
Philip Ashton, a 19-year-old fisherman, escaped captivity by the vicious pirate Edward Low on a remote Caribbean island. For 16 months he...
In Connecticut they called it ‘Storm Larry.’ But to anyone old enough to remember, the words ‘1978 blizzard’ conjure up some very...
During the summer of 1682, a stone-throwing devil persecuted a Quaker tavern owner named George Walton in what is now New Castle,...
Trying to calculate the exact moment of sunrise isn’t easy. In fact, the U.S. Naval Observatory says it’s nearly impossible because of...