The Royall House and Slave Prison
The slave quarters at Medford’s Royall House and Slave Prison are believed to be, according to the museum, “the only known extant separate slave quarters in the northern United States.”…Continue Reading →
Herring Underwater At Mystic Lakes
Herring on their annual spring spawning run on June 12, 2026, just upstream of the Mystic Lakes Dam between Medford and, Arlington and Winchester, Massachusetts. In 2025, an estimated 815,000…Continue Reading →
June 19 Is Napoleon Jones-Henderson Day In Boston
Juneteenth, June 19, 2026, will also be Napoleon Jones-Henderson Day in the City of Boston, after the Boston City Council unanimously adopted an official resolution offered by Councilor At-Large Julia Mejia…Continue Reading →
Remembering Three Enslaved People Who Poisoned Their Captor: A Cambridge Symposium
“One of the things that makes us uncomfortable is the history of violence, but the 250th [anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence] is all about the celebration…Continue Reading →
Shiny Shop Invites You To Be Seen, Safe, Shiny
Lately, Clara Wainwright–the legendary Cambridge and Gloucester quilter and installation artist who founded The Great Boston Kite Festival in 1969 and Boston’s First Night in 1976–became concerned about the safety…Continue Reading →
Muskrat At Saugus River
Muskrat! Was convalescing while chatting with a friend along the Saugus River, just upstream of the Saugus Iron Works, on a recent afternoon. We got quiet for a while. And…Continue Reading →
‘L.V. Hull: Love Is a Sensation’
“Do not try to understand me, just love me,” said L.V. Hull (1942–2008). In small town Kosciusko, Mississippi, the Black, female, self-taught artist used televisions and toys and bottles and…Continue Reading →
JooYoung Choi: ‘You Have Always Been Loved’
“Have Faith for You Have Always Been Loved” read streamers curling across a 2026 mixed-media painting in JooYoung Choi’s exhibition “Adventures of the Quantum Soup Surfer” at Amherst College’s Mead…Continue Reading →
In ‘Backrooms’s Cursed Maze Of Abandoned Retail Architecture, Finding America Gone Wrong
The horror flick “Backrooms” originates from an unforgettable image: an endless maze of eerily abandoned, generic commercial spaces, punctuated by odd stacks of furniture, all wall-to-wall industrial carpet, drop-ceilings, buzzing…Continue Reading →