Canaan News

In this photo taken Wednesday, May 23, 2012 ancient jewelry discovered by Israeli archaeologists is displayed at the Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Back in 1887, on weekdays from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m., you could visit The Field Library A on the upper floor of the 'Round House' on Smith Street and read "four daily papers and the principal magazines"-after your stagecoach made its scheduled stop at its doors.A The library was advertised as "free to all" and was made possible through an endowment of ... (more)

The longtime gay-rights activist's dumb remarks on religion were as damaging to LGBT people as the Christian Right's inevitable and hostile reactions to them, writes Jay Michaelson.

The garden is so great right now. It has no weeds. It also has no plants, except for the beautiful little lettuces we bought at Country Caretaker in Canaan, N.Y., and the zillion onion plants the other half of this family ordered from a catalog, even though he had only a vague intention of bending in half for an hour or more to plant them.