Crime & Scandal
In 18th-century Middletown, Conn., a tall, dark-skinned man named Prince Mortimer walked the same path each day, trudging to his master’s ropeworks where he spun …
Arts & Leisure
New England was well ahead of the game when it came to integrating professional sports, and a man from a city nearly in its center, …
Politics & Military
For generations, the accepted history of colonial New England celebrated the Turner’s Falls Massacre as a daring military victory. But people called it the Battle …
Business & Labor
South Hadley, Mass., about 90 miles west of Boston on the eastern bank of the Connecticut River, was once the site of the first commercially …
Religion & Social Movements
On the Feast of St. Sebastian, in foul weather or fair, an outdoor spectacle takes place in the streets of two places: Middletown, Conn., and …
Science & Nature
You’ve probably seen his name and glossed over it without a thought. But if you had been born in the 19 th Century, it was …
