A Day in the Life

John, a volunteer at the Artichoke Cooperative, pours out a bag of vegetables while describing the co-op’s mission to the community.

Friendly service, three keys for a dollar, and “3 Keys” the cat. Places like Jerry’s are harder and harder to find, so get your keys copied for cheap and try to stump Jerry with some obscure item to find somewhere around the shop while you still can.

The Assabet River Rail Trail is the newest paved trail in the area. Eventually, it will run for 12.5 miles from Marlborough to Acton, but only a little over 5 miles is currently rideable.

Lights of a different sort swirl around the menorah in the center of the Newton Square rotary. According to the Telegram and Gazette article, the menorah, hosted by Yeshiva Academy, has gone up during Hanukkah for nearly 30 years.

Unions Station is put to good use for the second annual Holiday ARTS At The Station.

The EcoTarium is the best science and nature museum in the Worcester area, but that’s mainly because it’s the only science and nature museum in Worcester. It’s not that it’s a terrible place. I’ve been to far worse, like the Turepentine Creek Wildlife Refuge outside of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, where I was praying that a [...]

And speaking of holiday trees, the Common is nicely decked out with holiday lights.

It’s been said that the cobbler’s children have no shoes, and I’m afraid that the sentiment is usually true when it come to photgraphs of my own children. After quite a few Christmas card portraits this year for other people’s children, I finally got around to my own. Now if only we can get around [...]

The portion of Elm Park west of Park Street holds this inviting old staircase through the fallen leaves.

Foothills Theater is certainly one of Worcester’s hidden gems, in both the literal and metaphorical sense, nestled between a parking garage and one of the towers that will remain standing after the upcoming city square renewal project begins.