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The Undead Walk, but Zombie Bugs Crawl
Zombies aren't just the stuff of nightmares. Join Rise of the Zombie Bugs author Mindy Weisberger in a conversation on the evolutionary quirks of zombifying parasites.
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Shakespeare Collector Emily Jordan Folger and First Lady Grace Goodhue Coolidge
Emily Folger née Jordan was a bluestocking: an educated, intellectual woman with a scholarly bent. In 1875, she followed her two sisters to Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. Elected president for life of her class of 36 women, she went home to Brooklyn...
Shakespeare Collector Henry Clay Folger and President Calvin Coolidge
Shakespeare collector Henry Clay Folger and President Calvin Coolidge were 6th cousins, once removed; surely they never knew it. They both graduated with a B. A. degree from Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts; Folger in 1879, Coolidge in 1895. They...
Folgers and Nantucket in an Anniversary Year
The first Folgers to immigrate to the New World came from the village of Diss, 20 miles southwest of the town of Norwich, in East Anglia, England. Part of the Great Puritan Migration, they crossed the North Atlantic on the Abigail in 1635 and landed in Boston...
