Millard Fillmore

Let us imagine that you have 20 minutes to interview Doris Kearns Goodwin about her upcoming talk at the Norfolk Forum. You catch her on her cellphone in Boca Raton, Fla., on her way to the airport, where she may or may not be allowed to fly home to...

The spotlight may be on the 2013 Decorators' Show House at the Knox summer Estate over its three-week run that kicked off this weekend, but little East Aurora is piggy-backing off the big event which is creating a ton of buzz in the community. "This...

At the dedication Thursday of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, President Barack Obama appeared with all four living ex-presidents — George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter. That raised a question: What is the record...

Local hospitals are hosting drug drop offs on Saturday, National Drug Take Back Day. Kenmore Mercy and DeGraff Memorial Hospital will be accepting drugs for disposal from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The hospitals will take controlled substances, expired, unusable...

Early after the first of this year, I wrote a column concerning interesting facts about our presidents, and I promised to write more. That column and this one — and possibly some future ones — are based on a book by Cormac O’Brien titled...

Years ago when I was a student at Northwestern University, a handful of executives at America Online came to my class and explained that you, I and everyone we know would soon find ourselves pleasantly stranded on "information islands." We nodded,...

Choose whether each song is on (A) Barack Obama’s campaign Spotify playist, (B) Mitt Romney’s campaign Spotify playlist or (C) Neither. 1. “I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow,” The Soggy Bottom Boys 2. “I Won’t Back Down,&...

Halloween decorations today include jack-o-lanterns, black cats, spiders, bats, ghosts, vampires, witches and other spooky, scary things. But in past years, many of these creatures were not threatening. In the early days of Rookwood Pottery, an art...

Any day now, Richard Nixon and Herbert Hoover will arrive at David Peterson's doorstep. At his Burbank home they'll join the likes of Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan and Thomas Jefferson — most of the presidents, really, in a collection of figurines...

"Teddy Roosevelt: Mountain King." Don't believe our 26th president could command a legion of dwarfs? Google his photos from his Harvard days. Luke Broadwater, reporter, The Baltimore Sun I would so Netflix "Gettin' Freaky with Bill Clinton and His...

Few know the woman who saved Thanksgiving To the editor: This week, we celebrate Thanksgiving Day. But how many of us know the story of Sarah Josepha Hale — the woman who saved Thanksgiving? She was born in 1788.  Stories she heard from her...

While Dr. Mark Midei was allegedly implanting unnecessary cardiac stents in hundreds of patients at a Towson hospital, stent manufacturer Abbott Laboratories was paying for crab and barbecue feasts at his Monkton home and building a business strategy...