One of the more perplexing geographic features of southern New England is Dighton Rock, a 40-ton, 11½ by 5 foot sandstone boulder once located on the east side of the Taunton River in the present-day town of Berkely, Massachusetts. Nicknamed…
In the fall of 1761, Ezra Stiles visited the Western Niantic Indian community in the Niantic-East Lyme, Connecticut area. Of the several Indian dwellings or wigwams standing there, he made sketches of two in particular, that of George Waukeets and Phoebe…
Ezra Stiles (1727-1795), the influential minister, scholar and president of Yale College, had a knack for writing things down. Nothing escaped his attention. His notebooks, journals, and correspondence often included the Native world around him. This world fascinated Stiles, who…