Thanks to the Oscar awards, the movie Green Book has been getting a lot of attention. There are plenty of good resources for learning more ...

One of Waterbury's great grassroots groups, Spirit of Waterbury , put together a winter festival at Hamilton Park this afternoon, the se...

Black barber shops have been an important center of African American communities since the 1800s. Black barbers were among the first African...

Over the weekend, we took in a stray female cat and we are now trying to find its owners. If your cat or dog is missing, be sure to c...

Starting sometime around 1750, Connecticut’s enslaved Africans began a tradition of electing their own Governor. In later years, the newly e...

The Trinity Episcopal Parish was formed in 1877 as an off-shoot of St. John's Episcopal Parish, in part because St. John's had grown...

I'm sorry to say I did not get in as much of The Gathering this year as I wanted. By the end of watching the parade, my back was killing...

Another year, another great day at The Gathering! I wasn't feeling my best, but there was no way I was going to miss out on this event. ...

Last weekend, a friend drew my attention to a distressing post on the Facebook group, You Know You're From Waterbury When.... The p...

Waterbury has lost another historic factory building to catastrophic fire. The building most recently known as Ansonia Copper and Brass caug...

Although the legendary sculptor Alexander Calder has been mentioned frequently in connection to the new artworks in downtown Waterbury, I h...

Five new public artworks, inspired by the work of Alexander Calder, were installed throughout downtown Waterbury on May 24. The dedication w...

Everyone learned at least some history in school, whether it was the cute story about George Washington telling the truth about chopping dow...

An interesting debate played out in the editorial pages of The Republican newspaper in February, 1914. James E. Kefford, a prominent busine...

There's more to the Frank Pepe name than pizza. In 1910, Frank Pepe was the name of a successful grocery business in Waterbury. Fr...

Years ago, during a program on slavery at the Mattatuck Museum, a white audience member stood up and said that he had been taught that slave...

You might think that Hamilton Park was named for Alexander Hamilton, but it was actually named for a local silver manufacturer whose wife do...

The Hillside neighborhood has some of the most ornate homes in the city. Developed during the late 1800s and early 1900s, Hillside was home ...

Plans to renovate Library Park were announced this weekend ( Rep-Am , 23 March 2018), so it seems fitting to spend some time delving into th...

Gordon W. Burnham (1803-1885) was born and raised to be a farmer in eastern Connecticut, but instead wound up as one of Waterbury's most...