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A day in a Monet
Click to view slideshow. The mountains aren’t the only place to find beauty and solitude. Just got back from a paddle up and down the Ipswich River, five hours spent almost totally alone, save for a...
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The sports pages for hikers
Today’s Boston Globe is all about hiking in New England. OK, there were three stories in an expansive Sunday edition, but all three make for excellent reading. The news is certainly better than...
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The classics never go out of style
I was rooting through one of my bookcases the other day when I came across a book I’ve owned for the better part of my life. Along with a leather-bound, 1927 edition of the works of Edgar Allan Poe...
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It’s in the cards for Kestrel
Some good news this week for our friends over at Kestrel Educational Adventures. The group was part of a team that won a $15,000 “Ideas That Matter” grant from Sappi Fine Paper North America. The...
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Happy Leif Ericson Day
Yesterday, all over the United States, people celebrated Christopher Columbus and his “discovery” of the Americas in 1492. Maybe it would be impolite to mention that the Genoan was actually the second...
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An open letter to the Ravenswood dog-walking lady
Dear madam: You don’t know me, but we have met several times. I often see you walking your spaniel when I run in Ravenswood Park. I don’t mind that you let your dog off the leash when you’re on the...
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Mt. Chocorua on the quarter? Mt. Chocorua on the quarter
While I join my fellow New Hampshire natives in my love for grizzled visage of The Old Man of the Mountains and great respect for the sweep and power of Mt. Washington, it has been the relatively...
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To run is to hope
Ten miles before breakfast, the sun coming up over the breakwater as I head out the door. Maybe it’s because of school vacation week, but I feel like I have the usually busy city to myself, save for a...
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The best race I didn’t start
Had one of the strangest racing experiences of my life today. Woke up early to head to Princeton, Mass., for the 21st annual Wachusett Mountain Race, put on by a local club, the Central Mass Striders....
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Hike Safe, stupid
Danger lurks in these woods. NEWS ITEM: A new law authorizing the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department to sell voluntary “hike safe” cards for $25 per person and $35 per family was signed into law...
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