On a recent sunny Saturday morning, Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, launched one of the great rites of spring in the Berkshires: the village’s annual “Baby Animals Festival,” running…Continue Reading →
Gore Place, the historic, 50-acre estate in Waltham, welcomed spring today with its annual Sheepshearing Festival. It featured demonstrations of traditional shearing techniques, herding dogs, historic re-enactors, music, craft and…Continue Reading →
Another waterfall close to Boston is the Cascade at the Commonwealth’s Beaver Brook Reservation along the Belmont-Waltham line. Beaver Brook flows from Lexington through Belmont and Waltham to the Charles…Continue Reading →
When it gets especially freezy out, I like to escape to a local greenhouse for a bit of warm, green humidity. So I recently made a getaway to the Lyman…Continue Reading →
The Cascade in the Middlesex Fells is always dazzling after a fresh snow–and especially after a few weeks of freezing temperatures have turned the waterfall into an ice palace. The…Continue Reading →
At the end of the summer, the 11-year-old and I drove up to the start of the Mississippi River in northern Minnesota. We arrived just after sunset, and the darkening…Continue Reading →
In February, pieces of a century-old shipwreck began emerging from the sand at the northwest end of Ipswich’s Crane Beach—a jagged, 50-foot-long fragment of the starboard side of schooner’s wooden…Continue Reading →
The group of nine of us began looking and listening for bats at Cambridge’s Mount Auburn Cemetery as night fell last Wednesday evening. Christopher Richardson, a biology teacher at Tufts…Continue Reading →
Herring run at Horn Pond, Woburn, Massachusetts. In 2018, new fish ladders and spillways allowed herring to bypass dams on the Mystic River and reach Horn Pond for the first…Continue Reading →
Garden in the Woods is a 45-acre botanic garden operated by the Native Plant Trust in Framingham, Massachusetts. With more than 1,700 kinds of plants representing 1,000 species, the organization…Continue Reading →