« Previous  |  Next »

Seabrook center shows off the nuclear science

SEABROOK, N.H. — David Barr ushers visitors to elevator doors in the Science & Nature Center at Seabrook Station, where he is education program manager, urging them, “You have to suspend disbelief. This is our little bit of Disney World.’’ The special ...

From PATRICIA HARRIS AND DAVID LYON, Boston Globe,  12 Mar 2010

Ten diners stamped 'Worcester'

The eight most comforting words in the American vernacular must be, “Can I warm that up for you, hon’?’’ Or so it seems when dawn is breaking, the grill is sizzling, and you’re hunched on a stool reading a newspaper over coffee. Between 1907 and 1957, ...

From PATRICIA HARRIS AND DAVID LYON, Boston Globe,  5 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Edward Hopper,  Mickey Rourke

In lively Salamanca, Spain, even the architecture is animated

Then a panhandler strolled over and offered to point them out. We gave him a euro and he reached up and gestured: Here . . . and here . . . and here. Sure enough, there was the graceful stork, the gargoyle-like monkey, the astronaut floating in his ...

From PATRICIA HARRIS AND DAVID LYON, The Washington Post,  28 Feb 2010

Ooooh...

ISCHIA - Leave it to the Italians. While central Europeans elevated “taking the waters’’ to an obsession with hydrological cure-alls, and the Scandinavians raised the pain and suffering of the hot sauna and cold snowbath to an art, the Italians ...

From PATRICIA HARRIS AND DAVID LYON, Boston Globe,  26 Feb 2010

Related Topics: William Walton,  Elizabeth Taylor,  Richard Burton

Spend a Saturday letting nature happen at Joppa Flats

NEWBURYPORT - No matter how bright the winter sunshine, when the mercury crouches toward the bottom of the thermometer, it’s hard to muster enthusiasm for an outdoor foray. So we look for motivation, and we couldn’t resist the Saturday Birding program ( ...

From PATRICIA HARRIS AND DAVID LYON, Boston Globe,  19 Feb 2010

Their Bay State of the art calls for chocolate

We’ve never conducted a scientific survey, but we suspect that if asked to name the perfect food, nine respondents out of 10 would say “chocolate.’’ But even chocolate comes in good, better, and best. In Massachusetts, we are richly endowed with ...

From PATRICIA HARRIS AND DAVID LYON, Boston Globe,  12 Feb 2010

Museum will have you wanting the car keys

SPRINGFIELD - Habit makes it easy to misread the decimal point on a colorful “Mobilgas ethyl’’ pump in the Museum of Springfield History. Look closely: It advertises fuel not at $1.59 a gallon but at 15.9 cents. That was a good thing, considering that ...

From PATRICIA HARRIS AND DAVID LYON, Boston Globe,  31 Jan 2010

Related Topics: Henry Knox,  Ford Motor Company,  Harley-Davidson, Inc.

A sense of each place, by the book

New England is an endlessly fascinating region, full of nooks and crannies, peculiar attractions, and a rich natural landscape. Right now, a lot of it is encased in ice, which makes this an excellent time to dream of seasons to come. Every year there’s ...

From PATRICIA HARRIS AND DAVID LYON, Boston Globe,  29 Jan 2010

Related Topics: Random House Inc,  Yale University,  Eric Carle,  Michael Stern (politician),  Henry David Thoreau

A winter wonderland ... look up! Wishing you knew what star you wished upon? The cold, clear light of night is the time to find out

Who needs fantasy games or blue-skinned sci-fi melodramas when the great hunter, the god of war, and the deposed ruler of the universe are all afoot? Nature’s compensation for the short days of winter are the long nights, where Orion, Mars, and Saturn ( ...

From PATRICIA HARRIS AND DAVID LYON, Boston Globe,  23 Jan 2010

Related Topics: Maria Mitchell,  Brown University,  Phil Flynn

Who says you have to ski to have fun?

Around here, waiting indoors for the daffodils to pop gets old pretty quickly. If you want to make it to spring with your sanity intact, it’s time to embrace your inner Inuit and relish the white stuff. Snow isn’t just for shoveling. Here are 10 ways ...

From PATRICIA HARRIS AND DAVID LYON, Boston Globe,  15 Jan 2010

« Previous  |  Next »

Who is This?

Help us add to our database, by linking this writer their entry in Wikipedia or Source Watch, or by suggesting that we remove it from our index.

Suggest an Entry