In April 1928, a phone call came into the Denison Settlement House, a neighborhood resource center in Boston’s China-town. The caller was looking for a 30-year-old staffer named Amelia Earhart, who at first begged off, saying she was busy. But after being told it was important, she picked up the phone. And what she heard […]
“Here, take some firewood,” says Raj Bhakta as he offers me a chunk of maple. I tell him, thanks, no, I’ve got plenty at home. He stares at me for an incredulous moment, then says, “No, take it” (the stupid is silent). “We’re going to the top of the hill.” So I grab the log […]
After you’ve lost a beloved canine companion, you might be reluctant to adopt another–until you see what’s patiently there waiting for you.
“It’s funny. When your parents die, you have all these one-time things you have to do.” Kornell Nash reclines in a weathered chair in his cramped office. A space heater in the corner keeps the late spring chill at bay. Beside the 15-year-old computer on his desk, a handful of fossils lie in an awkward […]
How many of these lobster-filled pop culture moments from film, television, music, sports, literature, and art do you remember?
Dan Tawczynski loves to tell the story of the day his corn hitched a ride on the Concorde. It was more than 20 years ago—the early 1990s—when one of his regular customers asked to pick some corn to send to England. “No way,” Tawczynski told him. “You can’t ship corn to England from Great Barrington!” […]
Credit: Jesse BurkeThe Write Stuff There are office supplies, and then there are Oval Office supplies—and when the commander in chief needs something to scribble his name with, the call goes out to America’s oldest manufacturer of fine writing instruments, Rhode Island–based A.T. Cross. Founded in Providence in 1846, the company has a long history […]
Credit: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division “A great and free country is not merely defense and protection. For every earnest spirit, it is opportunity and inspiration.” —Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1828–1914). As a Bowdoin College professor who volunteered for the Union Army, Chamberlain earned the Medal of Honor for defending Little Round Top at […]
The secret of the North Woods stroke for canoe-paddling is that the lower hand on the paddle shaft functions as a nearly stationary fulcrum.
On the centennial of the birth of Andrew Wyeth, a fellow artist and lifelong friend offers this one-of-a-kind remembrance.
Moving a homestead also means planting in new soil.
