Editor's note: Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was featured in The Eagle's 2011 series, compiled and written by the late Brian Sullivan, that featured notable Pittsfield residents. This capsule is ...

In the nineteenth century, the town of Marblehead with its natural beauty and history inspired a number of poets. Among them, Helen Leah Reed, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and ...

The words of a man’s mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook. “Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water ...

Links between apparently unrelated phenomena constantly surprise us. Take, for example, three famous men named Holmes. No one would confuse Sherlock Holmes with either Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. or his ...

Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days he ascended from Caesarea to Jerusalem. Then the high priest and the chief of the Jews informed him against Paul, and besought him, And ...

CAMBRIDGE (CBS) – The Cambridge Public Library has added a new piece to its collection – a letter by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. The letter, written in 1890, declines an invitation from the Cambridge ...

If you ever have a few minutes of spare time, read about the life of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Although he didn’t grow beyond 63 inches (you can do the math) and suffered from asthma as a child, ...

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