Was Christopher Columbus the first European in the Americas?  Nope.  Around the year 1000, Leif Eriksson sailed west from Scandinavia to what is now Canada, spending the winter there before returning ...

I have written several articles about Dennis Stone and his family over the years but have recently received an envelope of gold from Kansas.  Through a mutual friend, Gary Anderson, who just happens t ...

My career in broadcasting began with WEBJ in the Bronx, operated by the Third Avenue Railroad.  This was an opportunity for me to put my hands on things electrical which were totally new to me, in dim ...

I don’t know what has triggered the trivia game shows but Game Show Network is hosting two new programs based on everyday knowledge with a 3rd one airing in June.  So for those of you who are not glue ...

When exchanging pleasantries with friends, the question often arises as to which is the oldest?  Oldest what?  If children are being introduced then it’s them but when speaking of towns and cities, we ...

It was one o’clock in the afternoon, August 18, 1923.  The majestic Aquitania on which I came to the shores of America, tied along pier 14…me, second class accommodations after paying for this and one ...

Just as we now have local newspapers printing news of the various organizations in town with special write-ups of this and that so did we have one in the sixties.  Our Town.  It was sponsored by the C ...

We read about the Revolutionary War in school and with the romance of Paul Revere and others in Massachusetts, it is often believed the war took place up north.  Well, it was here in Connecticut too, ...

Other than Molly Pitcher and Betsy Ross, stories and reports surrounding the Revolutionary War depict the men, without much fanfare for women who were behind the scenes and in some cases in the heat o ...

North Milford, which was the founding town for Orange, appears to have some strong connections to the Revolutionary War.  I say seems as the information gathered is from sources other than what was ge ...

By Ginny Reinhard I don’t suppose anyone would doubt how cold January 1st could be, but to 200 ragged, ill and hungry colonial soldiers, that day had to be a nightmare.  It was 1777 and the colonies w ...

The history books have highlighted the American Revolution with major and minor heroes, some sticking in our minds while others faded into the history itself.  In the early days when I was a teacher i ...