It was one of our country’s most turbulent years. Demonstrations and riots demanding equality were staged nationwide. Gunshots rang out. World...
Last June my wife Marie and I encountered a mature wood turtle while walking through a forest near our home. We admired the intricate topography of...
What a journey we are on together. For some 10 months our lives have been upended by COVID-19, and yet we carry on. In the midst of more than 1.5...
There’s a story about an early tourist from New York City who stopped his horse and buggy to watch a farmer harvesting a spring crop of rocks from...
Here’s to the health care workers who put it on the line every day to tend to the needs of those who are ill and require healing from this novel...
More than 3,000 years ago, the Chinese believed that a dragon ate the sun during a solar eclipse, so they gathered outdoors to drive away the beast...
Imagine 10 nearly round white eggs snug in a hollow tree, lined with soft feathers plucked from the mother’s breast. The hen carefully tends the 2...
We like to think that everything in nature has its own particular time and place. But nature is fond of throwing us curves. As a naturalist, a...
To the delight of all who revel in the grace and beauty of nature, bald eagles are soaring above New England in numbers unseen for over a century...