A Dickens of a Christmas

Dickens did not quite “invent” Christmas, as it is sometimes claimed, but, ever since A Christmas Carol was published in 1843, Scrooge’s Yuletide nightmares and joyful Christmas morning have become as much a part of the popular idea of the...

Empty Mansions

Discover why 104 year old reclusive heiress Huguette Clark — at the center of a heated battle over a Gilded Age industrialist’s estate and $300 million inheritance –was for decades a hermit entirely removed from the outside world. One of Barnes and...