Helen Ford was born Helen Isabel Barnett in Troy on June 6, 1894. Helen’s father was a manufacturer in Troy, and she was considered a musical prodigy as a child. She studied voice and piano at a ...

As legendary beauties go, few are as legendary or as beautiful as the mythic Helen of Troy, who became the cause of the ...

A TROJAN ENDING—Laura Riding— Random House ($2.50). Troy’s tale is one of the oldest stories in the world. It has been questioned, sifted, dug into by historians and archeologists, reconstructed by ...

I take my headphones out and feel hot tears forming in my eyes. I notice a lump in my throat that wasn’t there before. Singer-songwriter Maisie Peters’ words echo like a lyrical symphony of ideas and ...

When Grace Siplon, the co-founder and artistic director of the Blue Box Theatre Company, was reading modern rewrites of classic literature she recognized a pattern — Helen of Troy almost never ...

I cut myself shaving right before I met Mary E. Roach. No big deal, but it’s worth mentioning because it’s so on-brand: I lost track of the number of times a character in her “We Are the Match” holds ...