ARLINGTON — The childhood of author Stephen T. Haggerty, in which he spent summers in the West Arlington village where Norman Rockwell lived and painted, steeped him in the artist’s
Norman Rockwell s models, from his days in Arlington, Vt., are the subject of a newly released book, "Norman Rockwell s Models: In and Out of the Studio" by S.T. Haggerty.
WEST ARLINGTON James “Buddy” Edgerton was a quiet and humble man for his whole life, despite his natural good looks and his family’s connection to one of the 20th
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A centuries-old mystery may be solved soon, thanks to some old-time pirate booty recently unearthed by an amateur historian. Jim Bailey found the coins using a metal detector in Middletown, Rhode island.
For 400 years, historians have pondered the escape route of pirate Captain Henry Every after his capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai, a ship belonging to an Indian emperor carrying gold and silver from Mecca. The discovery of these coins hints that Every made a pitstop in America. Although Bailey originally believed the loot to be of Spanish or colonial Massachusetts origin, research revealed it was from 17th century Yemen.