Gerald Chapman, Prohibition’s celebrated ‘Gentleman Bandit,’ might have escaped the gallows if he hadn’t gone on a crime spree in Connecticut. While...
Ammi Phillips, a masterful folk artist, was forgotten for decades until his work came to light in a Kent, Conn., antique show in 1924....
The patriots who fought for independence from Great Britain did so under a variety of revolutionary flags. But by June 14, 1777,...
The Worcester tornado of 1953 struck without warning and cut a swath of destruction, at times a mile wide, through a half-dozen...