Being the town Santa is not all ho-ho-ho and Merry Christmas! A report from the other side of the beard in this 1992 Yankee Classic from Donald Hall.
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The Tinkerer of Dickinson’s Reach
Five wheelbarrows are scattered haphazardly around a large ground-floor workshop in an eccentric, circular building in the woods just a two-minute walk from Maine’s rocky coastline. None of the wheelbarrows looks like the others, and frankly, none looks much like a wheelbarrow. They’re all handmade, four of them by a man named Bill Coperthwaite. (The […]
Learn trivia about one of America’s oldest, scenic parkways, the Merritt Parkway.
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Celeste Ng | Knowledge & Wisdom
Credit: Kevin Day Photography “You should be able to count on the goodwill and generosity of others to survive … and by ‘others’ I mean our society and our society safety net. ‘Others’ is all of us.” —Celeste Ng (born July 30, 1980). Exploring ideas of race, class, and family, this Cambridge, Massachusetts, author first […]
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Life in the Kingdom | Time Alone
With family away, life during a cold snap is distilled to the pleasure of chores, the warmth of cats, and a ski trek across the land.
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December Babies | Mary’s Farm
Those of us born in December often arrive late, or so say the old wives, who claim that these fiery infants aren’t anxious to come forth into the cold world. I was apparently not interested in that cold entry, as I was born on December 10 rather than November 14, the day my mother expected […]
The Hurricane of 1938 was the worst natural disaster in American history, greater than even the Chicago fire or San Francisco earthquake.
Opening October 2018 at the MIT Museum, “Lighter, Stronger, Faster” spotlights the revolutionary design of Rhode Island’s Herreshoff boats.
Nowhere in America has the opioid epidemic been so deadly as New England. From the beginning, Gloucester, Massachusetts, has been on the front lines of a war seemingly without end.
The pizza business is a family business at Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana.
From 3,000 miles away, a humble New Hampshire lakeside cottage spoke to author Joyce Maynard in the midst of sorrow.
Learn trivia about one of America’s oldest, scenic parkways, the Merritt Parkway.