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Woodstock, Illinois is a county seat town built around a charming Square about 50 miles northwest of Chicago.  That is in the orbit of the great metropolis, but far enough away not to be just another suburb.  Like a lot of places, maybe your home town, it has a unique history.  Today, I’d like to tell you the intertwining tales of two historic ( Read more... )

An Italian comic imagines the scene at the Villa Diodati as Mary Shelley begins to unwind her tale of horror.

On June 16, 1816 Lord Byron entertained a few friends at the Swiss home he was renting near the shores of Lake Geneva.  He called the house the Villa Diodati after the family that owned it.  Locals called it by an older name-the Villa ( Read more... )

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Although by 1965 many states had acted individually to end restrictions on the use and sale of birth control devices and The Pill, others continued to criminalize distribution, if not private use.   Among them was Connecticut, a New England state still in the after math of long domination by culturally very conservative Congregational clergy ( Read more... )

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