Tag: New England
Winter: it is s time when cities may seem lively against winter’s early dark. That same early winter dark may bring deep quiet to places away from city lights. …
Boston Public Market: it is a place where creativity and community flourish. When I am in the Boston area, I always enjoy visiting, sometimes to meet up with friends, …
Music is an essential part of winter. Sometimes, though, those familiar winter music songs and carols can get a bit overdone or seem a bit , well, too familiar. …
Whales. These days you may see them in a distance out to sea, or in a book, or as part of an exhibit in a museum. Time was that …
Acorn Street. You may have seen its cobblestones or red brick walls as backdrop to an advertisement or a fashion shoot. Do you know the backstory of this street …
Music opens doors to other cultures, other landscapes. It can open connections, share stories, and help us go more deeply into places new, and places familiar. Music can bring …
The Harvard University campus — the whole Boston area, in fact — is filled with world class museums. The Fogg, the Busch Reisinger, the Museum of Fine Arts, the …
Crossing borders goes along with traveling. In many ways crossing borders goes along with playing music, too. In both cases, there’s an art to keeping centered while taking on …
New England, the far northeastern part of the United States, is a place of contrasts — big cities and small towns, seashores and lake shores, ponds, rivers, forests, cutting …
Across the years, I’ve spent a good bit of time in the Boston area. Almost all of that time, though, has been spent across the Charles, in Cambridge, Somerville, …
I didn’t really appreciate it when I lived there; Rhode Island was so small, so confining, so insular. The ocean water stays cold (at least by my standards) all …
Somerville, Massachusets, of a winter evening… Often there are musicians up in the front corner playing a session of tunes. There are plenty of places to sit and relax, …