Chelsea Edgar

The first entry in Bianca Stone’s journal describes a dream she had last fall.

More than two centuries before the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage, at a time when women couldn’t vote or own property, Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake made a home together in Weybridge.

Eleanor Ott had a genius for bringing people together. In the book-lined dining room of her 19th-century farmhouse in Maple Corner, she ran an eclectic backwoods salon, hosting women’s discussion groups and rune feasts to fête the solstices. At her table, you might find yourself elbow-to-elbow with a close friend of the crown prince of England, a psychic healer from Iceland, or a photographer who had documented the Civil Rights movement.

Since I attended my first Bread and Puppet show a few years ago, I’ve been curious about the little society of performers that flourishes each summer at the theater’s 200-acre farm. I love immersive reporting assignments, and I figured that the only way to understand Bread and Puppet — a quasi-commune, led by a visionary artist and sustained by mostly unpaid labor — was to spend a lot of time there.

In 1947, a pilot spotted a fleet of strange objects traveling in the skies over Mount Rainier at speeds between 1,200 and 1,700 miles an hour, unthinkably fast by the day’s technological standards.

Each day, artificial intelligence gets a little better at impersonating us.

Each day, artificial intelligence gets a little better at impersonating us.

Peter Schumann sat in a wobbly plastic chair, a gin and tonic in one hand and a cigar in the other, crossing and recrossing his...

On her acclaimed podcast “Rumble Strip,” Erica Heilman sometimes sounds as if she’s calling from a closet in which she has barricaded herself against an intruder.

More than a year after she launched her campaign for U.S. House — and following a week in Washington, D.C., that felt like an eternity...