Wild Turkeys In The City | Wonderland Spectacle Co.
A new art and nature video for kids from Wonderland Spectacle Co.: When a family of wild turkeys visited our backyard in Greater Boston, we wondered how the birds came…Continue Reading →
Curious Leatherback Turtle Returns To Peabody Essex After 2 Decades In Storage
For decades, the old leatherback turtle lurked large and curious in a dim corner of the Peabody Essex Museum’s natural history galleries, displayed in one of the few places the…Continue Reading →
Climb The Blue Hills With Wonderland Spectacle Co.
In our new video, the Wonderland-Spectacle-Co.-Mobile heads to the Great Blue Hills, just south of Boston. Climb the hills with us. See a chipmunk, a leaf-footed beetle, a flower longhorn…Continue Reading →
Wonderland Spectacle Co. | Rain
Enjoy a rainy day with Wonderland Spectacle Co. in our new video for kids and families. Play in puddles. Learn how to make a rain band. Craft paper boats. Look…Continue Reading →
Descending Into Purgatory Chasm
An article from Wonderland’s series about Miserable Places: Despite Purgatory Chasm’s dismal-sounding name, most visitors have found the gorge stirring. “This is a most stupendous place,” W.A. Benedict and H…Continue Reading →
Boston Zoos Begin Reopening May 28
Franklin Park Zoo in Boston will reopen on May 28, followed by Stone Zoo in Stoneham on May 30, Zoo New England announced today, allowing guests into the facilities for…Continue Reading →
Trustees To Reopen DeCordova, Naumkeag, World's End, Fruitlands, Crane Beach
The Trustees of Reservations will reopen deCordova Sculpture Park in Lincoln, the grounds of the Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, Naumkeag in Stockbridge, and World’s End in Hingham, and Crane Beach…Continue Reading →
Arnold Arboretum: How Frederick Law Olmsted And Charles Sargent Created A National Historic Landmark
“A visitor driving through the arboretum will be able to obtain a general idea of the arborescent vegetation of the north temperate zone without even leaving his carriage,” said Charles…Continue Reading →
Walking The Boardwalk Through Ponkapoag Bog In The Blue Hills
For about a decade and a half beginning in the 1930s, Professor William J. V. Babcock had been taking his biology classes from Eastern Nazarene College in Wollaston to study…Continue Reading →
Photos: Brush Fire Scorches Woods Atop Pine Banks Park, Melrose
The top of Mt. Ephraim—at 208 feet the tallest point of Pine Banks Park in Melrose—was recently left charred by a brush fire. Even days later the area, with its…Continue Reading →