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UNlisted's Lauren Padilla: Boston Museum of Fine Arts' 'Hippie Chic'...
Fashion is more than clothing - it is history. Illustration by LAUREN PADILLA By LAUREN PADILLA Longmeadow High Where can you find a collection of flared jeans, sequined blouses, and teased hair (no...
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'One Hundred Years of Jewish Life in the Valley' to open at Wood Museum
Chronicles growth, influence of Jewish settlement in Pioneer Valley. Guest curator Dr. Stuart AnfangFile The story of Jewish settlement in the Pioneer Valley is detailed in “One Hundred Years of...
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Irish poet Seamus Heaney, winner of Nobel Prize, dead at 74
Ralph Waldo Emerson professor of poetry at Harvard University, from 1998 to 2006. Irish poet Seamus Heaney. Associated Press file photo Seamus Heaney, Ireland's beloved poet and scholar who won the...
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Hatfield resident Matt Rigney's 'In Pursuit of Giants' takes reader on global...
Sports fisherman stunned by the decline of great fish. Hatfield resident Matt Rigney started fishing when he was 5. The 45 years-old recalls his great grandfather, an accomplished fisherman, as the...
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Appraiser Kenneth Gloss, of Brattle Book Shop, to speak at Longmeadow's...
Will also appraise items on Sept. 25 Kenneth Gloss, proprietor of Boston's Brattle Book Shop will give a free talk, "Is There Value in Your Old and Rare Books?" on Sept. 25 at 6:30 p.m. Storrs...
View ArticleRosh Hashanah recipes: Caramelized onion tart, zucchini bread; High Holy Days...
Cooks can take advantage of summer's harvest. By JIM ROMANOFF Rosh Hashana typically is a solidly autumnal holiday, falling sometimes as late as October. But this year, the Jewish New Year comes early...
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Betty McCann: Victorian dollhouse a labor of love
A friend of mine decided to move from her present location, down sizing and giving away many of her possessions. Knowing that I have always liked dollhouses, she gave me a partially built dollhouse...
View ArticleDriving in America stalls; Love affair with automobile over?
Per capita automobile use back at the 1990 levels. WASHINGTON — Driving in America has stalled, leading researchers to ask: Is the national love affair with the automobile over? After rising for...
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Eric Carle Museum to celebrate International Dot Day with Peter Reynolds,...
Event encourages people to be creative. International Dot Day, a worldwide celebration inspired by the popular Peter H. Reynolds picture book, “The Dot,” will be marked at the Eric Carle Museum of...
View ArticlePentecostal churches turn away from practice of speaking in tongues
Some congregations seek to be more mainstream. By SARAH PARVINI LOS ANGELES — At Three Crosses Church, Pastor Ken Walters urges his parishioners to join him in song and scripture. The charismatic...
View Article9/11 memories turned into survivor songs by American musician Jake Heggie
Stories gathered from around the country for new album 'here/after' NEW YORK (AP) — A dozen years after 9/11, an American musician has turned memories of grief into survivor songs — some of them...
View ArticleGermany puts 92-year-old former Nazi Waffen SS fighter on trial
Dutch-born Siert Bruins tried on charges of murdering Dutch resistance fighter as member of the Nazi's elite group of paramilitary fights. HAGEN, Germany (AP) — Germany put a 92-year-old former member...
View ArticleThomas Paine collection, including historic 'Common Sense' pamphlets, finds...
Will serve as basis of courses and conferences. NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. — He helped inspire the American Revolution, but Thomas Paine suffered a broad range of indignities afterward: Political cartoonists...
View ArticleSelling farms to next generation takes innovation to keep it affordable
The number of farmers who are 65 or older grew by 22 percent nationwide. ALBANY, N.Y. — After four decades of farming, Kevin Carley was ready to pass along his dairy operation in central New York. And...
View ArticleLava lamps illuminating interiors for 50 years
A British company began marketing their original creation as an "exotic conversation piece" in 1963. LONDON (AP) — Call them 1960s relics or hippy home accessories, lava lamps have been casting their...
View ArticleFugitive slave Harriet Beecher Stowe harbored before writing 'Uncle Tom's'...
Conclusions of Professor Susanna Ashton's about slave who had settled in Salem before fleeing further North, appear in "Common-Place," the journal of the Massachusetts-based American Antiquarian...
View ArticleHBO mini-series with Frances McDormand to film in Massachusetts
Described as a story of a "seemingly placid New England town wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy." BOSTON (AP) — North Shore residents may soon be seeing film crews crowding local streets....
View ArticleFlu vaccines hold promise of extra protection
Certain vaccines will guard against four strains of flu rather than the usual three. WASHINGTON (AP) — Flu vaccination is no longer merely a choice between a jab in the arm or a squirt in the nose....
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Colrain artist Dallas Looman's work part of special exhibit headed to...
Awarded $2,000 as an emerging artist with disability. Dallas W.R. Looman, 25, of Colrain shows a box of his pastels. One of his pastel pictures was selected for an exhibition of artwork by emerging...
View ArticleSt. John's Congregational first Coley Davis Jr. Memorial Golf Outing benefits...
Army veteran, church member remembered for service. U.S. Army veteran Coley Davis Jr. was a great supporter of tutoring services for area students, and St. John’s Congregational Church in Springfield,...
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