We have the Dutch to thank for the modern word landscape, one of those “borrowed” pieces of language which has taken on an enlarged meaning ...

I first met Ray Powers more than 25 years ago, personally selling his wonderful hand-crafted loaves of peasant bread from the tailgate of hi...

Driving south from Washington, D.C. on U.S. I-95 nowadays it takes just over an hour to reach the city of Richmond, Virginia, passing by pla...

The years between 1890 and 1920 witnessed the “hayday” of commercial glass. The two beverage bottles were designed to be refilled, while cob...

Visitors to the picturesque Owls Head light station who do not know the whole story, are often mystified by this simple granite marker place...

For a generation or two of us who grew up with Studebakers, DeSotos, Packards and Hudson Hornets, driving across America’s two-lane highways...

The difference between “Preparing” and “Hoarding” comes down to a matter of timing. If we acquire and store goods and commodities during ti...

Increasingly, I find myself speaking to groups made up of apartment or condominium dwellers, both young and starting out in life, and older ...

Three days ago, an item on the Associated Press news wire caught my attention: In Morgantown, West Virginia, Frank Buckles had passed away q...

The name of Josiah Hensley may not be well known in today’s school classrooms, but for a Connecticut-born teacher living in Brunswick, Maine...

In her landmark best-seller, ”Unbroken * * * A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, Laura Hillenbrand (SEABISCUIT) t...

Each year, a growing number of country villages across Italy cordon off their downtown areas and host open-air street festivals dedicated to...

It will come as no surprise to those who know me and follow my word-ramblings that I cannot hide for long my special love for coastal New En...

Sometime in 1831, and probably on a South Carolina railroad, a local postmaster in a hurry got the idea of asking a locomotive engineer to h...

Returning to historic events along the road to secession in America’s first century, it can quickly be seen why the U.S. Congress of 1850 co...