According to a rumor that has circulated online for years, Tabitha Babbitt, a Shaker woman from Massachusetts, created the "first practical circular sawmill" in the early 19th century. The story of ...
The thing about Babbitt—the title character of Sinclair Lewis’ 1922 novel—is that everyone knows one — or even many. George F. Babbitt is something of an everyman: he’s a middle class, middle-aged man ...
Author Sinclair Lewis won the Nobel Prize in literature a century ago in part for his novel “Babbitt.” He wrote it while he was in Washington D.C., and the play adaptation is now being performed at ...