An occasional look at Connecticut’s remarkable people, places and things For more than a century, Anna Horan’s gravesite was one of the thousands marked by squat, featureless headstones arranged in ...

You’ve just brought in a bucket of strawberries from the backyard berry patch, farmers’ market, or the U-pick farm down the road. Now you’re dreaming up all the strawberry recipes and sweet desserts ...

One of the small treasures discarded by many of these outdoors people is the skull of the hunted or trapped animal. When ...

Years before the signing of the Declaration of Independence and before Robert Townsend worked undercover in George Washington’s spy ring, his grandparents were buried in a family graveyard in Jericho.

WILLIAMSPORT -- The headstones, forming a concentric circle around the monument dedicated to the soldiers who fought and died in the Civil War, sits atop a hill in Wildwood Cemetery. Time and the ...

A cemetery in Lycoming County is going the extra mile, cleaning gravestones while offering community members a chance to get involved. The forgotten Chevy Nomad concept we wish made it to production ...

What better time than the nation’s 250th birthday to clean up a historic graveyard? Granville’s Old Colony Burying Ground on S. Main Street will host a volunteer morning from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Granville citizen Olivia Power prepares to clean the marble headstone of Julia A. Webb (1810-1846), which had become darkened over ...