Author: Kerry Dexter
The streets and businesses around Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in Glasgow’s city centre and West End in Scotlans will be rather quieter than usual this January. Gathering …
The northern lights, the aurora borealis, are an iconic symbol of winter in the northern hemisphere, the stuff of legend as well as of scientific investigation. Perhaps you have …
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. …
Kerry Dexter
December 2, 2020
travel stories, Africa travel, City or urban travel, Europe travel, green travel, History, Kerry projects, Parks and preserves, Travel, US travel
Perhaps your travels of late involve neighborhood walks. There is much that can be learned with such walks. Right now, for a number reasons my walks take place very …
Saint Andrew’s Day, 30 November, is the national day of Scotland. It is celebrated in Scotland itself and in many places across the world,where Scotland’s sons and daughters have …
Kerry Dexter
November 17, 2020
encounters, Africa travel, Asia travel, green travel, History, Kerry projects, Middle East travel, South American travel, Travel, travel stories
Paul Salopek began his current journey in Ethiopia. At this writing, travel changes and border closings find him paused in Myanmar. It has taken him seven years to get …
People walking all manner of dogs, runners, children playing, families having picnics, students with their books, tennis players: all may be in Kelvingrove Park at the same moment. Kelvingrove …
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 …
A bowl, a mug, a ring, a quilt, a scarf, a broom: time was when each of these things was made by hand, by a person skilled at the …
A festival steeped in and celebrating the culture, landscape, and music of a beautiful albeit rather remote place: this is Celtic Colours. The festival usually has more than 50 …
Autumn in Ireland has many and varied aspects. There are places and times brilliant with changing colours of foliage. There are places and times all across the island of …
Banff: it is a small town in Alberta, in the Canadian Rockies. There is only one other town, near neighbour Lake Louise, which is at a higher elevation in …
