In the Nantucket practice of Tim Lepore, medicine and caring are dispensed in equal doses.
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Dear Yankee | Our Readers Respond
The Story Continues When planning began last year for the feature “City of Hope,” our aim was to tell the story of how a wave of newcomers—specifically African immigrants—was helping to revitalize the former mill town of Lewiston, Maine. By the time the piece appeared in our March/April issue, though, the national debate over immigration […]
Fifty years ago Boston Traveler photographer Harry Trask snapped these three pictures at the Boston Marathon—and runner 261 became a legend.
We took a look through history at summer gold-medal Olympians that have called New England home. Here are a few of our favorites.
Runner and Olympian, Joan Benoit Samuelson, on pioneering women’s running, winning the gold in ’84, and her plans to run a sub-3-hour marathon at the age of 60.
Harvard medical researcher Irene Davis, Ph.D., believes that our knees hurt because a lot of what we understand about running is wrong. She also believes something else the world might not be ready for: that a person can be retrained to run differently to lessen the chance of injury, not to mention ridicule. Dr. Davis, […]
“I think women make good runners because they’re so good at multitasking, and it’s something they can fit into their busy schedules. Running is more accessible and affordable than a lot of other sports and fitness activities. It can also be very social, which draws women in.” —Joan Benoit Samuelson (born May 16, 1957, in Cape […]
Well, some of the Best Legendary New England Sports Figures. In a region as rich in sporting tradition as New England, it’s tough put a limit on the number of legendary figures, so when we set out to include a few as gifts in our special 80th Anniversary Issue (“80 Gifts New England Gave to America,” September/October 2015), […]
New England
New England’s Small Museums | The Memory Keepers
Can New England’s small museums survive a nation’s short attention span? Can they still bear witness to lives that mattered, to the stories they tell?
Massachusetts
Spectacle Island | An Island Retreat Minutes from Boston
Boston’s Spectacle Island is the ultimate story of urban revitalization. A former smallpox quarantine and garbage dump turned into a bucolic retreat for city dwellers…with the help of truckloads of dirt excavated from the Big Dig. And it’s just a 20-minue boat ride from Boston. The human tale of Spectacle Island goes back centuries. […]
Massachusetts
2013 Boston Marathon | The Memories We Choose
Terror and chaos came to the finish line of the Boston Marathon in 2013. But what came after can also be remembered as a time of bravery and kindness.
History
Red Sox Win 2013 World Series!
There were generations of Boston Red Sox fans for whom October meant falling dreams and spirits along with the leaves floating to earth. The Red Sox of Ted Williams and Johnny Pesky and Carl Yastrzemski and Carlton Fisk and Fred Lynn and Wade Boggs and Bill Buckner, brought fervent fans to the brink of a […]