A Berkshire Eagle reader presented a mystery: What did his ancestor carve on a powder horn in 1776? Before we consider what Benjamin Markham, of Tyringham, carved, we might clear up two other ...

A 243-year-old piece of history was recently returned to the family of its original owner, Lieutenant John Jenkins. The Revolutionary War officer’s six-times-great-grandson, Richard Jenkins of ...

During the colonial period, cattle horns were used by woodsmen and by soldiers for storing gunpowder in a safe, dry place. The horns also became decorative objects, as they were personalized by the ...