It’s hard to envision bucolic Bedford, N.Y. as a war zone, but it was one during the Revolutionary War. British forces traveled up Guard Hill Road and then burned all but one of the houses in the village 235 years…
Tag: history
Note from the Brawny Sherpa: A Visit to the Bedford Oak
Don’t Miss in Salem, Mass.: One Over-the-Top Bookstore
The First Thanksgiving Was in Florida
Are Historical Sites Honest about Slavery?
The global tumult of the last week—the killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and global unrest stemming, allegedly, from disgust with a video about Muslims made by a film maker in the United States—makes the celebration of the U.S.…