Spanish educator Sandra Wolff has lived in West Hartford for over 30 years, but she is originally from South America. She remembers using the dictionary to learn a new language. “I use the Noah ...

Dictionary Day is celebrated in the United States on October 16 th in honor of Noah Webster’s birthday. Noah Webster was born in West Hartford, Connecticut in 1758, which had him growing up as the ...

NEW HAVEN -- Noah Webster made his fortune in New York, but he created his legend in New Haven. A Yale graduate, Webster had published the nation's first daily newspaper and written a spelling book, ...

In a previous post, I discussed Noah Webster's compulsive nature. His "touch of madness" -- his obsession with compiling and organizing information of all sorts -- enabled him to devote thirty years ...