If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

– Henry David Thoreau

Beautifully restored map of Cheshire, Connecticut from 1882

Detailed bird’s eye view of Cheshire, Connecticut as it used to be

How a 14th Century Warlord Gained Courage from an Ant

Timur, the last great nomadic conqueror of the Eurasian Steppe, was a warlord who envisioned the restoration of Genghis Khan’s Mongol Empire. Timur’s army was feared throughout Asia, Africa, and Europe, but his extraordinary perseverance, displayed during fifty years of continuous battles, was imparted by an ant.

Beautifully restored map of Meriden, Connecticut from 1875

Detailed bird’s eye view of Meriden, Connecticut in 1875

Dwight D. Eisenhower, “measure up!”

If you don’t have that courage to look at yourself and say, ‘Well, I failed miserably…

19 historic pictures of Stamford’s Dolan Middle School

Generations of Stamford, Connecticut residents have attended Dolan Middle…

Beautifully restored map of New Canaan, Connecticut from 1878

This old map shows New Canaan, Connecticut in the late 19th century.