Polo, Picnics, and People Watching
Pop quiz: Where can you show off your favorite sundress--or shorts, sip champagne--or soda, and stroll around an enormous field tamping down divots while kids cavort alongside canines, just over…
Pop quiz: Where can you show off your favorite sundress--or shorts, sip champagne--or soda, and stroll around an enormous field tamping down divots while kids cavort alongside canines, just over…
We all know that one of the great benefits of living in New England is that we get to experience all the seasons. Our iconic foliage draws busloads of tourists…
In The World on a Plate (2014), Mina Holland describes 40 world cuisines and the “stories behind them.” Reading her book, you travel across Europe and down through the Middle…
As a kid I dreamed of living in the Big City. On weekends my mom and I drove into Boston from the suburbs to shop at the iconic Filene’s Basement.…
One of my favorite responsibilities as a youth services librarian is choosing new young adult books to purchase for the library’s expanding collection. Young adult books (or YA as we…