We’re not sure any spelling went on Thursday, but we are sure the home of our most celebrated lexicographer got visitors who enjoyed seeing it spruced up. Noah Webster is credited with creating the ...

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 ...

Happy Dictionary Day, word-nerds! This is the official holiday in which we celebrate the birth of Noah Webster, who would be 254 years old if he were still living and breathing on this planet. Webster ...

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 ...

Although Webster has been the subject of several biographies—the most substantial and comprehensive being Harlow Unger’s Noah Webster: The Life and Times of an American Patriot (1998)—Joshua Kendall ...

WEST HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — A ribbon-cutting was held on Thursday morning at the Noah Webster House and Museum in West Hartford to celebrate a new makeover. The exterior of the 278-year-old house ...

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 ...

George Washington's cultural attaché : the definer of American identity -- From farmboy to best-selling author. Hartford childhood and Yale manhood ; Spelling the new nation ; Traveling salesman -- ...

Long before Noah Webster completed his 1828 magnum opus, “An American Dictionary of the English Language,” he published a wildly successful primer called “A Grammatical Institute of the English ...