Moments in Time – March 31, 2024

#MiddleburyCT On April 8, 1930, baseball legend Babe Ruth signed a two-year contract for a then enormous sum of $160,000 with the New York Yankees, prompting the team’s general ... Continue Reading →

Moments in Time – September 21, 2022

#Middlebury On Oct. 6, 1866, the Reno gang carries out the first robbery of a moving train, making off with $13,000 from a train in Indiana. This new method of sticking up moving trains ... Continue Reading →

Moments in Time – April 6, 2022

#Middlebury On April 20, 1841, Edgar Allan Poe’s story, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” first appears in print. The tale, generally considered to be the first detective ... Continue Reading →

Moments in Time – August 11, 2021

#Middlebury On Aug. 24, 1875, Capt. Matthew Webb of Great Britain becomes the first person to successfully swim the English Channel without assistance. Webb reached shore in 21 hours ... Continue Reading →

Moments in Time – July 14, 2021

#Middlebury On July 30, 1619, in Jamestown, Virginia, the first elected legislative assembly in the New World – the House of Burgesses – convenes in the choir of the town’s ... Continue Reading →

Moments in Time – March 10, 2021

#Middlebury On March 23, 1839, the initials “O.K.” are first published, in The Boston Morning Post. Meant as an abbreviation for “oll korrect,” a popular slang misspelling ... Continue Reading →

Moments in Time – Oct. 16, 2019

#Middlebury On Nov. 1, 1512, the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, one of Italian artist Michelangelo’s finest works, is exhibited to the public for the first time. After ... Continue Reading →

Moments in Time – April 17, 2019

#Middlebury On May 5, 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte, the French military leader who once ruled an empire that stretched across Europe, dies as a British prisoner on the remote island of ... Continue Reading →

Moments in Time – March 29, 2018

#Middlebury #MomentsInTime On April 15, 1783, the Continental Congress of the United States officially ratifies a preliminary peace treaty with Great Britain. Five months later, the ... Continue Reading →

A Sporting View – Some presidents were jocks

#Middlebury #ASportingView Contrary to what the White House press corps may have you believe, the favorite pastime of the president is not dodgeball. Politics, by nature, is a competition, ... Continue Reading →