“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 […]
40 inches Length of the largest lobster caught in Maine, a 27-pounder nicknamed “Rocky” said to have a crusher claw strong enough to break a man’s arm. Trapped in a shrimp net near Cushing in February 2012, he was donated to the Maine State Aquarium and set free. 41 inches Length of the largest lobster ever […]
How many of these lobster-filled pop culture moments from film, television, music, sports, literature, and art do you remember?
Berries Lobster eggs. A berried lobster is a female that is carrying fertilized eggs on the underside of her tail. Bugs Lobster larvae. Also used more broadly to mean any lobsters. Chicken A 1-pound lobster. Cock A male lobster. Cull A lobster with only one claw. Egger A berried female lobster. Hen A female lobster. […]
Why are lobsters called “bugs”? They look like them, for one, but they also have a number of creepy-crawly close relatives: Lobsters belong to the phylum Arthropoda, which includes insects, spiders, scorpions, and centipedes. How many kinds of lobsters are there? Though a number of crustaceans have “lobster” in their name, the term usually refers to […]
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!” […]
The 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 of putting […]
“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 Gettysburg in July 1863. During his military service […]
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.
