This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Odds and ends from the era drift through a varied column
A collage of quotes and vignettes on philosophy, manners, and gossip. Nuggets include a remark on Longfellow classmates at Bowdein College, the weight of piano strings, shipwreck rescue hopes, a priestly quip about money, a German scholar’s view on handwriting, a Chicago woman's death lament, homes and comfort’s moral influence, a La Crosse father’s numbered hairs myth, a humorous note from a Dubuque printer, a Prussian general’s cobwebs query, and assorted anecdotes from Milwaukee to Hartford.