Crime & Scandal
The Dudleytown Curse brought misfortune, madness and death to people who lived in Dudleytown — the Village of the Damned. English noblemen beheaded for treason …
Arts & Leisure
In July 1934, a Connecticut congressman named Schuyler Merritt presided over the groundbreaking ceremony for the Merritt Parkway. The road would be “constructed for pleasant …
Politics & Military
It boggles the mind to think of it, but in 1924 the United States was run out of the second floor of a store in …
Business & Labor
Thomas Plant did everything larger than life when it came to baseball, his shoe manufacturing empire and his castle. Little evidence remains of his triumphs …
Religion & Social Movements
In July 1934, a Connecticut congressman named Schuyler Merritt presided over the groundbreaking ceremony for the Merritt Parkway. The road would be “constructed for pleasant …
Science & Nature
In the fall of 1883, people in Salem, Mass., might have noticed a young Asian man dressed in Western clothing walking about the city. The …
