Oliver Wendell Holmes, who issued Old Ironsides from the house whose site the stone marks, no doubt would have rescued his birthplace from such funereal treatment with another epic, but ...

Some excerpts: On July 25—according to G. Edward White’s biography of Holmes—Roosevelt had a “secret meeting” with Holmes at Roosevelt’s summer home on Long Island. Roosevelt offered ...

Mass Audubon’s Canoe Meadows Wildlife Sanctuary is a fine wildlife-viewing, walking and skiing place not far from downtown ...

Twenty-five years ago Oliver Wendell Holmes '61 took his place on the Supreme Bench of the United States, in that room of the Capital which had been the meeting place of Congress during a century ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes coined the term in a novel in 1861 ... Governor Briggs was in a tight position. The Fall River Weekly Newssummed it up this way: "If any delays, misgivings or symptoms ...

Follow in the footsteps of literary legends Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Oliver Wendell Holmes with a hike ... that overlook the Housatonic River Valley and Mount Greylock.