Although Nathaniel Hawthorne called himself "the obscurest man in American letters," his achievements in fiction, both as short-story writer and novelist, offer models fashioned too well for contemporary and later writers to ignore. Even though fame was...
When Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts, on our most patriotic holiday in 1804, his ancestral roots were already deeply planted in New England. Writing in The Scarlet Letter (1850) of his sentimental affection for the town of his birth,...
In sketches, tales, and romances published in the second third of the nineteenth century, Nathaniel Hawthorne chose mainly American materials, drawing especially on the history of colonial New England and his native Salem in the time of his early America...
Old News is a tabloid-format newspaper containing original articles on ancient and modern history, written in a popular style. It is published six times a year by Susquehanna Times & Magazine, Inc., of Landisville, Pa. Old News...
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Old And New. 09/16/2004: 1,147 words, approx. 4 pages
By Charles Rathmann Suspended bridge to be built onto 75-year-old structure in Milwaukee "No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. But...
The myriad performances of music in the different-sized venues that make up the classical-music season in New York can be a daunting assignment to summarise, both because no one can possibly hear more than a fraction of them and because of the variety of...
Neighbors have noticed some peculiar noises coming from inside the ancient Hotel Riverview in Greenwich Village. Could it be the shrieking ghosts of the sunken Titanic, whose lost souls are rumored to haunt the former seaman’s flophouse—or, is it just the clamor of illegal construction?...
Rules enacted after the 9/11 attacks are forcing fliers to check more bags into the cargo holds of planes rather than carry them onboard. As more bags get checked, more items are bound to get lost. In January, U.S. airlines reported 8.2 mishandled bags per...
