Katie Puder started Avant Chamber Ballet to bring live music back to dance concerts, build a repertory around George ...

The Riedel Foundation has awarded a matching grant for the Mark Twain Home fundraiser. The foundation awarded an $8,000 ...

Historian and best-selling author H.W. Brands is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. His new book, " America First ," ...

It’s the place where Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn were born, the house built for one of the most popular American writers of 19th century, Mark Twain. The Mark Twain House on Farmington Avenue in Hartford ...

A CT park was shuttered due to illegal activity. Here is what’s being done to make it safe again. A CT park was shuttered due to illegal activity. Here is what's being done to make it safe again.

The Stone Academy was built in 1809 and has served in shaping community involvement, public influence, and political ideology ...

No one more politically pointed can touch the sleekness of his prose. If you want to call Hiaasen the Mark Twain of post-Vietnam America, you’ll get no arguments here. But Hollywood has struggled with ...

River cruises often elicit a lackluster response—conjuring images of slow-moving vessels brimming with family reunion ...

Their minions have even rejiggered the way agencies gather and report statistics to give them numbers and statistics they and ...

What happens when a writer and a scientist become besties? When it comes to Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla, it turns out they gave the phrase "talking s—" a whole new meaning.

Newspaper editor Horace Greeley unsuccessfully ran against incumbent Ulysses S. Grant in November 1872. Twenty-four days ...

From the column: "America’s own quintessential humorist and scathing truth-teller would take no prisoners. ... We are the fortunate beneficiaries of his dashed hopes and ironic misfortunes." ...