Tag: New England

  • Antiques in Connecticut

    Antiques in Connecticut

    The wife had a mid-winter antiquing itch and exhausted our little corner of New Hampshire’s resources to scratch it. After a Google search and a NewEngland.com article (https://newengland.com/travel/new-england/best-antique-towns-in-new-england/) we went an hour and and forty minutes south to Putnam, Connecticut with a single store in mind… Antiques Marketplace is in Downtown Putnam is an old-stuff…

  • Harvard’s plagiarist president Claudine Gay is out! I thought this was about antisemitism?!?

    Harvard’s plagiarist president Claudine Gay is out! I thought this was about antisemitism?!?

    A. J. Kierstead and Dexter Tarbox dive into Harvard University’s Claudine Gay being pushed out as president (even though she will still be on the faculty), the many reasons why this is good, and the higher education DEI problem. Follow Dexter on X: https://twitter.com/DSDexterTarbox We have a Substack email list to get weekly updates to…

  • Stone Zoo at Wintertime

    Stone Zoo at Wintertime

    We rolled the dice on a mild December day to see what the Stone Zoo is like during winter. It was a great success!

  • Boston Lights at Franklin Park Zoo

    Boston Lights at Franklin Park Zoo

    I ventured into the dark lands… Past the safety of the “Live Free, or Die” state… I returned to tell you the tale of… a… …fun family trip to the Franklin Park Zoo’s Boston Lights: A Lantern Experience! As animal lovers, we somehow had never checked out the New England Zoos and we were pleasantly…

  • Concord’s First Sunflower Festival!

    Concord’s First Sunflower Festival!

    I first want to congratulate Sunfox Farms for their successful move to Concord from Deerfield. I can’t imagine being an independent, local farmer in 2023, let alone moving to a new location in a post COVID-19 economic landscape. Greg and Amber did it though and brought their annual Sunflower Festival with them. Sunflower fields are…