Wonderlands: Visionary And Folk Art Sites Across The U.S.
For several years now, I’ve been making pilgrimages to visionary sites across the United States. Below are a selection of photos from those trips. I’ll add more as I go.…Continue Reading →
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Freeing The Ware River
What does it mean to remove a dam that’s constrained a river for more than a century? What does it look like to loose the bindings that have impeded the…Continue Reading →
Photos: St. Peter’s Fiesta In Gloucester
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’s Haunted Sexy Cyborg Worlds
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 →
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 →