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Boston Red Sox Team Uniforms
More Red Sox lore: More about Uniforms Baseball Collectibles Red Sox Fun Facts The number worn by more Red Sox than any other is #15, worn by 52 players. Until the 1931 season, the Red Sox didn’t wear uniform numbers. Red Sox in pinstripes? For much of the period between 1912 and 1931, both home […]
Homes
Sudbury, MA: Hager House
We arrived in South Sudbury, Massachusetts, about an hour before our appointment with Bill and Dottie Schirmer, current owners of the Hager House, as it’s known historically, on what was once part of Henry Ford’s huge (2,900 acres at one time) Wayside Inn estate. So, we thought to ourselves, why not have lunch at that […]
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St. Patrick’s Day Parade in South Boston, Massachusetts
The annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade in South Boston, Massachusetts joins history, tradition, and local pride.
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Land Preservation in Massachusetts
SLIDE SHOW: Trustees of Reservations Will Garrison watches his “decorative” cows munch the green grass at the bottom of the hill. They don’t actually belong to him, or for that matter, to Naumkeag, the historic mansion (now a museum) in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, that he helps manage. More than 30 years ago, the Trustees of Reservations […]
Many foods signify the coming of spring, but local spring lamb holds a savory place all its own. We profess to eat by the seasons, but in this era of year-round availability, it’s really palate memory and stubborn localness that determine apples for autumn and strawberries for June. Following that guideline, lamb is for spring, […]
Need some new ideas for Easter table settings? Here’s how to create simple yet elegant place settings and centerpieces for your Easter table. Spring at last! And in the spirit of the season, I love decorating my dining room table for Easter with fresh and unusual designs. Several great ideas came to me as I […]
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Antiques: Chelsea Clocks
To hear my punctual mother tell it, I was born two weeks early and that was the last time I was early for anything. A skillful procrastinator, I seem powerless to change. I hear the tick of the clock and I rage against that machine. But even as I curse the swing of the pendulum, […]
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Russian Icon Museum | Gallery in Clinton, MA
Gordon Lankton’s first Russian icon, a c. 1850 image of St. Nicholas, hangs in a dark corner of the lowest level of his museum. He found it lying in the dust at a Russian flea market in 1990 and bought it for $25. He doesn’t think it’s a very good one anymore, and he’s not […]
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Restaurant Review: The Lyceum
When I was in high school, the kids who took French class were treated to a special end-of-year lunch at a restaurant housed inside a historic 19th-century lecture hall in Salem, Massachusetts. While dining at The Lyceum, we had to speak only in French and at least try les cuisses de grenouilles (frogs’ legs). We […]
Magazine
Early Spring | Mary’s Farm
At this time of year, when the ice is disappearing from the ponds and some fields are greening up, patches of snow or ice stay along the edges of shaded roads and in the north corners of fields. They’re a shock of white in a spring landscape. Sometimes, if it’s a warm day, I think […]
In this day and age when religious extremism threatens us both at home and abroad, it is both proper and necessary to be reminded that, at their benevolent hearts, most of the world’s religions say pretty much the same thing about the human condition. All religions are manifestations of a human will to believe in […]