by Alan Bisbort | Oct 29, 2009 | News
It seemed like such a simple request. The town where I live, Cheshire, Conn., was the scene of one of the most publicized acts of brutality in recent years—the July, 2007 home invasion and murders of a mother and two daughters. Some residents, still traumatized,...
by Maureen Turner | Oct 29, 2009 | News
When Tom Walsh decided last summer not to go through with plans to run for the Springfield City Council, he told the Advocate he'd decided to defer any political aspirations of his own to concentrate on his day job. Walsh is communications director for Mayor...
by Our Readers | Nov 5, 2009 | News
I wanted to thank Maureen Turner for her well researched and well-written article concerning the scheduled closing of Immaculate Conception Church in Indian Orchard ("Praying for Salvation," Oct. 22, 2009). For those of us in the Springfield Catholic Diocese...
by Mark Roessler | Nov 5, 2009 | News
After his 1907 expedition to the Andes to photograph Mars, Amherst College astronomer David Peck Todd became obsessed with the planet and the Martians whose canals he was convinced he saw there. In 1909, he planned a trip in a balloon to an altitude sufficient to...
by Alan Bisbort | Nov 5, 2009 | News
They say history is written by the winners, but it's written by myth-makers, too—if that's not a redundancy. In recent weeks, while researching a publishing project on the myths of American history, I have combed through an unending supply of stories...
