Late last year, archivists made a dramatic discovery when paging through an old guest book at the Hammond Castle Museum in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Long thought lost, the guest book—full of…Continue Reading →
In some spiritual traditions the “Axis Mundi,” or axis of the world, is a place where heaven and earth come close together and can link. In William Schaff’s mixed media…Continue Reading →
A dog becomes a table, an owl becomes a bronze vase, and a cast bronze tree holds up a glass tabletop in Judy Kensley McKie’s exhibition “Carving the Surface” at…Continue Reading →
Charles Daniels always had one or more cameras with him—when he was strolling local streets; when he was emcee at Boston Tea Party rock club in the late 1960s and…Continue Reading →
During covid, Kathleen Bitetti’s neighbor cut down trees that had shaded her South Boston yard, so she began filling the small dirt plot behind the triple decker in which she…Continue Reading →
In Somerville artist Jessica Straus’s exhibition “Packing for Mars,” at Boston Sculptors Gallery from April 4 to May 5, 2024, she “looks forward with dread to a future when humans…Continue Reading →
The “Boston Comics in Color Festival” showcased comics creators of color with a hall full of comics for sale, talks and live music at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic…Continue Reading →
![Jim McGrath and others, "Untitled [Playland]," 1950s to 1980s, photographs. (Collection of The History Project)](https://gregcookland.com/wonderland/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/picJim-McGrath-AsTheWorldBurns240324_P1102412w530.jpg)
Snapshots of the Boston bar Playland taken by bartender Jim McGrath and friends beginning in 1958 and ’59 show a drag queen leaning on a jukebox under clouds of balloons,…Continue Reading →
In 1960, when Joseph Tetteh-Ashong was 15, he began an apprenticeship in coffin-making with his mother’s cousin, Seth Kane Kwei. The training led Tetteh-Ashong, or Paa Joe, as he’s become…Continue Reading →