Check out my article on the amazing Hilarie Holdsworth of Hilarie Holdsworth Design. It was such a pleasure to visit her in her...

Janice Parker’s thoughtful revival of an Ellen Biddle Shipman landscape in Connecticut. I had the honor of covering landscape architect...

*Originally posted March 16th 2020* Smallpox hits the Aztecs, from the Florentine Codex, Book 12, 16th century / Biblioteca...

*Originally posted November 25th 2019* First floor reading room at NEHGS. What better way to spend a classic New England dreary and damp...

*Originally posted November 18th 2019* Photo courtesy of Mark Lorenz. Last night I dragged my husband to a well-developed play about one...

*Originally posted August 13th 2019* A 19th century fancy-painted chair–one of many treasures to be had at the 2019 NH Antiques Show....

*Originally posted June 14th 2019* The famous historian discussing his new book The Pioneers in Hamilton, MA (June 2019) A very...

*Originally posted June 11th 2019* The engaging flyer that Rebecca Shea, Events Coordinator at Hamilton-Wenham Public Library, did to...

*Originally posted April 9th 2019* Today I went to Grub Street’s Muse and the Marketplace #Muse19 writer’s convention at the Boston Park...

*Originally Posted April 4th 2019* Last night I attended my first event having to do with my nascent writing “career.” The event was in...