You won’t see a mama cow and her young like these on any Vermont hillside! Thanks to the corded handle, these plush purple bovines on wooden wheels ($22.95) make great pull toys for kids over 18 months of age. Frog, duck, and dinosaur families are also available. Made by Rich Frog Industries, Burlington, Vermont. 888-742-4376, […]
Robert Forenza calls his Hugg-a-Planet stuffed Earth “the teddy bear of the 21st century.” You can hug it and snuggle with it, roll it and toss it. Even better, you can learn from it: The planet’s up-to-date map features more than 600 labeled places. Pictured here is the classic model (12-inch diameter, $19.95), offered in […]
Delight your children throughout the holiday season — and all year long — with these classic yet innovative toys.
Industrialization, the advent of electricity, and the closing of the frontier provoked a national identity crisis at the end of the 19th century. Nostalgia for the simpler America of the Founding Fathers led to a movement known as the Colonial Revival. This Windsor-style chair, which is made from old flax wheels, typifies the desire to […]
Nearly 125 years after his birth, Norman Rockwell remains the man most Americans think of when they hear the word “artist.”
Rajiv Kumar Chairman, Adopt a Doctor Providence, Rhode Island When 24-year-old Rajiv Kumar shares his memories of Mali, his eyes light up and his hands fly: the locals’ joyous spirit, the amazing music, feeling safe in the village, being treated like family. This West African nation is one of the world’s poorest countries, ravaged by […]
Robert Chambers President, Bonnie CLAC Lebanon, New Hampshire Robert Chambers was a used-car salesman when he witnessed colleagues high-fiving over a big bonus, money made at the expense of a low-income single mother. “The car was completely wrong for her, something she couldn’t afford,” recalls Robert. The industry preys on poor women, he notes. “After […]
Gwen Fletcher and Dottie Volosin Volunteers, Charlie’s Closet Guilford, Connecticut Tours of historic Guilford usually take in the town’s numerous antique buildings. Gwen Fletcher and Dottie Volosin give a different kind of tour, a narrated medical life of their town: “A young man in that Cape cares for his mother and needed a hospital bed… […]
Patricia Franchi Flaherty Founder, Ovations for the Cure Natick, Massachusetts Every woman knows new shoes are a powerful kind of therapy. “They’re good medicine,” says Patti Franchi Flaherty. Her feet sparkle in a pair of mesh jelly flats, Stuart Weitzman originals. Thanks to Patti’s foundation, Ovations for the Cure, every ovarian cancer patient gets a […]
Of all the gifts that the holiday season bestows on us, the most enduring are memories. When our trees are stripped bare, we turn inward, toward hearth and home. The days shorten, and now we come inside for warmth and light. Here we find our memories all swirled together — almost all of them thoughts […]
Wrong Target Edie Clark’s bucolic view of country life is certainly charming, but she should have been fretting more about the wandering black bovine eating poisonous pigweed or getting hit by a car rather than getting shot by a hunter [“Raging Bull,” September/October, p. 14]. Encouraging the stereotype of the bumbling and dangerous “Elmer Fudd”-type […]
“As a kid in Westwood, Massachusetts, all I ever wanted to do was play street hockey. My house was at the flattest part of the street, so the games were always right in front. I was the only girl, and some of the older boys weren’t too keen on letting me play, so my dad […]
