The day of my big performance, a friend handed me a button with this message: "Keep calm and time travel." We laughed at how fitting this was, as that night I was to go onstage at a D.C. club and read ...

Adolescence in the early 1800s wasn’t easy. Just ask Candace Roberts, daughter of clockmaker Gideon Roberts. Candace went to work as a teenager to paint clock faces, leaving her family and friends ...

The slender, worn 19th-century diary of a clockmaker’s daughter may soon become the basis for a high school textbook. Gail Leach of Bristol has asked the library board for permission to publish the ...

Dropped into an Old North Dayton yard by a Memorial Day tornado, a decades-old diary carries clues to its writer. But it remains a mystery who last kept the weathered volume and where it began its ...