Beaumont Inn (most recently known as the Days Inn), is now also just a memory. Since about 1830, a hotel has sat on this site. Now, for the first time in 182 years, it will serve a new function as the Schreiber Foods Global Technology Center. When...

It was Eli Whitney. Whitney, a Yale University student, made short cotton into a profitable crop. Wikipedia writes: "The cotton gin is a mechanical device that removes the seeds from cotton, a process that had previously been extremely labor intensive.

The changes are “long overdue,” said Sen. Joseph Crisco (D-17th District) shortly after he heard about the proposal. “It’s fantastic. The [technical] school system has never received the attention it should have.” Emmett O’Brien Technical High School in...

Now, with his second Super Bowl Most Valuable Player trophy, golly-gee-shucks Eli Manning sits atop the American sports universe, and the local playground may never sound the same. The hottest name in football right now is… Eli. Eli. As in Eli Whitney,...

Local talent in various fields also will speak: Sally Hill and Bill Brown of the Eli Whitney Museum and Workshop; Yale writer-in-residence Anne Fadiman; Yale Associate Professor Beverly Gage (speaking on the FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover); architect Peter...

Think Eli Whitney, Samuel Morse, Thomas Edison, Steve Jobs — individualists and heroes all. There is only one problem with this notion. In our global, networked economy, the lone wolf is rapidly becoming an anachronism, one that threatens to impede...