Head to New York’s Fifth Avenue on Easter Weekend and you’ll find what looks like an explosion of life-sized confetti. It’s the annual Easter Parade and Bonnet Festival, and “the only requirement” to ...

Born without hands, Martha Ann Honeywell (1786-1856) could cut and paste, thread a needle, embroider and write using her mouth. A recent catalog gave a description of a silhouette as “cut by mouth.” ...

The chain watch dangling from Isabelle Huth`s waist ticks loudly as she speaks to a group of 4th-graders touring Naper Settlement. ”We`re back in the 1800s now,” she tells them. ”We`re not in 1987 ...