One of Waterbury's most underappreciated buildings is the Porter house on East Main Street, across from Hamilton Park. The history of th...

As we slog our way through the COVID-19 pandemic, I have found some reassurance from studying the 1918 influenza pandemic, the worst pandemi...

Every so often, I visit the Library of Congress website to see what new Waterbury material has been digitized. My latest search pulled up a ...

Bucks Hill (also spelled Buck's Hill) was far enough removed from the center of Waterbury to be considered a satellite settlement during...

During the 1870s, Christmas in Waterbury began to look more like it does today than it had in earlier decades (see previous post ). Christma...

Christmas is a time of nostalgia, with people reflecting on their happy memories from childhood, but the older history is just as interestin...

I recently purchased a Waterbury token on a whim while looking for information about a Pete’s Tavern featured in a series of articles in 194...

We've been trying to remodel our Scovill Row Home for over a year now, hitting endless obstacles from contractors who want nothing to do...

As reported in the Republican-American on May 2, the iconic spires of St. Anne's Church will be removed by All Saints Parish this summe...

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...