NOTE: I’ve been commissioned by the Essex County Community Foundation to help document/promote cultural projects from its Creative County Initiative, which is supported by Boston’s Barr Foundation. As darkness settled…Continue Reading →
The year after the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott, Life magazine asked Gordon Parks to travel to Alabama to photograph the lives of African-American families in the Jim Crow South. For…Continue Reading →
In the fall of 1936, as the first edition of “The Hobbit” was in production, its author, J.R.R. Tolkien, gave his publisher a series of maps that he’d drawn to…Continue Reading →
On Saturday, Dutch artist Stefan Thelen—known by his anti-superhero identity Super A—began painting a mural depicting a barn swallow crashing out of a bell jar. It rises several stories high…Continue Reading →
The question was how to slow traffic around Medford’s Brooks Elementary School to make it safer for students. Last year, fourth-grader Eric Dobson and his third-grade partner Isa were in…Continue Reading →
“The Elma Lewis 2018 Women in Community Arts Collectors Edition Trading Cards” set was created by Boston artist Neil Horsky to honor “the essential and inspirational leadership role of women”…Continue Reading →
“In some districts, where twenty-five years ago they were plentiful, scarcely any are now to be seen,” the American ornithologist and artist John James Audubon warned about the Carolina parrot…Continue Reading →
It was drizzling lightly on Thursday afternoon, a few days before Easter, when we drove up to Holy Land USA in Waterbury, Connecticut. The dilapidated Roman Catholic shrine and tourist…Continue Reading →
Is it a roller coaster? “No,” replies the patient ride attendant at the free, 30-minute “Hershey’s Chocolate Tour” at Hershey’s Chocolate World in the company town of Hershey, Pennsylvania. Is…Continue Reading →
Here is Wonderland’s guide to the best museum exhibitions to see around Massachusetts this spring…. If this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please…Continue Reading →