Next year is the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the American Civil War.
Framingham has many significant connections and contributions to The Civil War, from weaving wool for uniforms and blankets, to sending the most men per capita of any town in Massachusetts.
The Battle Hymn of the Republic was first publically sung here at Plymouth [...]

When I was grocery shopping, I noticed some flyers under the windshield wipers of several cars in the parking log.
I find it annoying and an invasion of privacy. (I don’t like finding door hangers on my front door, either.)
I only know of one time that someone told me that they responded to a flyer [...]

During the downpour today I was surprised to look out and see a bird, I think a finch, eagerly feeding at the feeder hanging on our crab apple tree. The bird clung to the feeder in the wind, looking around as it nibbled, but rarely looking toward our window.
I was only about [...]

We added a birdfeeder and suet to a crab apple tree near our window birdfeeder.
But since the robins, we’ve only seen a chickadee or two intermittantly. Then this weekend, we had a grouping of Tufted Titmouse. One in particular kept coming to the windowsill and singing. I don’t remember hearing that particular [...]

The other day I happened to overhear bits of a conversation between a mother and daughter. The daughter, perhaps in middle school, was questioning why her mother was buying large quantities of colored paper.
The mother replied that she was volunteering. But why are you volunteering, the daughter asked. Why do [...]