One hundred years ago this week, the nation's new first family was adjusting to life in the spotlight. That hot bulb was dimmer and more inclined to turn away than the strobe light that captures ...

If Americans know anything at all about Calvin Coolidge, U.S. president No. 30, they know he had a pet raccoon. The Coolidge White House (1923-1929) has not been enshrined in high school curricula. It ...

Vice President Calvin and Grace Coolidge were visiting his father in Vermont when President Warren G. Harding died suddenly in San Francisco. That was Aug. 2, 1923. The old Coolidge homestead had ...

During this period, he had met and married fellow Vermonter Grace Goodhue, a native of Burlington, who taught at Northampton’s Clarke School for the Deaf. They soon started a family. Grace gave birth ...

If descendants are fortunate, their parents, grandparents and others before them are tellers of tales. Jennifer Coolidge Sayles Harville, great-granddaughter of Grace and Calvin Coolidge, is more ...