I’ve been documenting the St. Peter’s Fiesta in Gloucester for three decades now—but this time, the 99th year, as I’m recovering from my year of (successful) treatment for cancer, treatment that…Continue Reading →
Hans Rickheit is an excellent draftsman who creates comics set in unsettling erotic steampunk worlds of lithe young women and troll-like men and insectile cyborg prosthetics. His art can slither…Continue Reading →
Convalescing just downstream of the Trash Trap on the Malden River. Near where the river begins, or at least where the river emerges from where it got buried underground about…Continue Reading →
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 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 →
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 →
“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 →
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! 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 →