Clement Moore took far more pride in the Hebrew dictionary he wrote than in A Visit from St. Nicholas, which he also wrote....
The oldest synagogues in New England were built well after the first Jewish settlers arrived. Touro Synagogue, the only surviving synagogue from...
Noah Webster was an odd duck, a famously fussy lexicographer who not only Americanized the English language but created the idea of...
New England is as unlikely a place as there is to celebrate a Christmas first. After all, Puritans in Massachusetts and Connecticut...
In the early days of the fight for women’s voting rights, Connecticut’s Glastonbury cows got caught in the crossfire. In June of...
Sometime around 1630, John Endecott planted a pear tree with the hope it would live for generations. He got his wish with...