At age 20, Mildred Taylor Mills’ future seemed stable. Heir to her father’s modest fortune, the Westport, Conn. girl was “for a...
David Wooster is known more as the person who gave New Haven’s Wooster Square neighborhood its name than for his heroism during...
On the night of Nov. 14, 1917, 63-year-old Mrs. John Winters Brannan wrapped herself in her heavy sealskin coat to protect herself...
May is a wonderful month to visit New England places of historic interest. The dreary rain of April is behind us and...
Marion Donovan was always destined to be an inventor – it was in her blood. Her brothers, father and uncle were all...
Shirley Jackson worked as a shop clerk at Macy’s by day and by night wrote stories that every middle-school child reads and...