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 →
“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 →
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 →
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 →
The National Weather Service recorded winds gusting up to 59 miles per hour around Boston today. The high winds whipped up seas along Lynn Shore Drive and Nahant Beach. Photos…Continue Reading →
The first article in Wonderland’s series about Miserable Places: At 227 acres, Mount Misery is considered to be the largest conservation area in Lincoln, Massachusetts. When we arrived on a…Continue Reading →
Between Lincoln Avenue and Summer Street in Lynn, there is a dirt stretch of the “Bike to the Sea” Northern Strand Community Trail that cuts through marshes along the Saugus…Continue Reading →
Recent snows and rains and frosts have transformed the Cascade falls in Melrose into a dazzling ice palace. The 40-foot-tall formation is one of the closest waterfalls to Boston—and an…Continue Reading →
Visited Walden Pond … in Saugus, Mass. This is what it looks like from the eastern end. (Photo copyright Greg Cook, April 16, 2017.)Continue Reading →