Moments in Time – August 3, 2022

#Middlebury On Aug. 19, 1812, the U.S. Navy frigate Constitution, known as “Old Ironsides,” catches the British warship Guerriere 600 miles east of Boston where the Constitution ... Continue Reading →

Moments in Time – Dec. 4, 2019

#Middlebury On Dec. 16, 1773, in Boston Harbor, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships and dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor. ... Continue Reading →

Moments in Time – Oct. 23, 2019

#Middlebury On Nov. 6, 1528, the Spanish conquistador Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca is shipwrecked on a low sandy island off the coast of Texas. Starving, dehydrated and desperate, he ... Continue Reading →

Moments in Time – May 29, 2019

#Middlebury On June 13, 323 B.C., Alexander the Great, the young Macedonian military genius who forged an empire stretching from the eastern Mediterranean to India, dies in Babylon, ... Continue Reading →