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Cambridge monuments you may have missed

By Kate Blackwood / July 19, 2024

A memorial for everything, almost. And if there isn’t one, make it up.

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A man walks up a steep trail carrying a child in a backpack. In the foreground, a gnarled pine tree has a blue paint mark on it

Blue blazes

By Kate Blackwood / June 29, 2024

The descent from Acadia Mountain and the joy of engaging fully with the task at hand when there’s no other option.

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Smoots, Naticks, and glass bananas

By Kate Blackwood / May 2, 2024

Enjoy this quiz of Boston area oddities!

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Movies of the month: Love and Labor

By Kate Blackwood / March 18, 2023

In which the protagonists love what they labor at, interrupt love for labor, find love through labor, or, in the case of the last one, kidnap a sexist, egotistical boss and suspend him from the ceiling of his own country house.

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