If you ever have a few minutes of spare time, read about the life of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Although he didn’t grow beyond 63 inches (you can do the math) and suffered from asthma as a child, ...

PITTSFIELD — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a frequent visitor. Herman Melville lived just down the street. Holmesdale, poet Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.'s historic 19th-century estate on Holmes Road, ...

In the nineteenth century, the town of Marblehead with its natural beauty and history inspired a number of poets. Among them, Helen Leah Reed, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and ...

Supreme Court justices are not known to be EGOTs (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony winners). And only a few plays have ever highlighted black-robed justices, and even fewer feature justices twice. But ...

The words of a man’s mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook. “Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water ...

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CAMBRIDGE (CBS) – The Cambridge Public Library has added a new piece to its collection – a letter by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. The letter, written in 1890, declines an invitation from the Cambridge ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.: Arts and ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Frederick Hill Meserve Collection comprises more than five thousand Civil War-era portrait negatives from the ...