Plenty of people in early New England were persecuted for witchcraft, and not just in Salem, Mass. Witches had troubled the European...
In 1656, the Hartford controversy cost Rev. John Russell his job. During the 1650s the church at Hartford, Conn., was one of...
In 1867, Harriet Beecher Stowe and her husband Calvin, tiring of New England’s cold climate, visited Florida for the first time. They...
In 1634, Pequot Indians captured a vessel commanded by English trader John Stone at the mouth of the Connecticut River. They killed...
In 1840, the river men who hitched their fortunes to ships like the Greenfield, which hauled freight up and down the Connecticut...
Amos Whitney came from American industrial royalty. His father was a locksmith, his grandfather a blacksmith and another wing of the family...