I’ve been trying to focus on one topic for this blog and I can’t. I can’t focus. Then I realized, isn’t that the main topic of our everyday lives? Researchers say that now goldfish have longer concentration than human beings. I’m not surprised. I think we are all struggling to maintain our Read More
Columns
Summer Day-Tripping In and Around Newburyport
You’ve asked for it, and it’s finally arrived. Summer has come to Newburyport! As such, here’s a quick cheat sheet for how to make the best of summer in and around town. It simply does not get much better than.... Summer In Newburyport: EATS: Go to David's Fish or Tendercrop, then to Read More
Newburyport News
A Winter Refuge at the Firehouse Theater in Newburyport
Enjoy a “Winter Refuge” at Newburyport’s Firehouse Gallery through December. Gallery hours are from Wednesday through Sunday, 12pm to 5pm; and Sea Level restaurant is right next door for some holiday cheer. Thirteen talented NAA watercolorists’; Muriel Angelil, Elizabeth Bell, Katie Cornog, George Darcy, Karen Fitzgerald, Ann Jones, Betsy Lewis, Claudia Mathews, Mary Ann McCarthyRead More
Cider Hill Farm in Greater Newburyport Serves Up The Cider
We are extremely lucky in Greater Newburyport in many ways, but especially to have wonderful local farms a stone throw away from this area. Top contenders include Cider Hill in Amesbury, Russell Orchard in Ipswich, and Tendercrop in Newbury (also Wenham and Dover, NH.) Apple picking, as wells a seasonal berry picking, is always aRead More
Newburyport Documentary Film Festival
The Newburyport Documentary Film Festival is set to be held online and in person this year in September. For over 15 years, organizers have been bringing the highest caliber documentary films to our community. In addition to the weekend screenings online and (when able) at historic venues, they also hold filmmaker receptions, after-parties, panel discussions,Read More
Regional Stories
Museum of Science in Boston Presents Nasa Exhibit this Summer
At the Museum of Science in Boston see the exhibit: Space: An Out-of-Gravity Experience. The member preview is June 23, and the temporary exhibit will be open through the summer. The Museum’s newest temporary exhibition, takes you as close to space as you can get without leaving Earth! This hands-on, climb-aboard cosmic adventure of scienceRead More
Road trip: Newburyport to the Berkshires Mass MOCA Embodies Cool
The spectacularly located and formerly overlooked city of North Adams has been revitalized through ART—cutting edge, large scale, contemporary art. It speaks to some of us in a BIG way. MASS MoCA exhibits work by many of the most important artists of today—both well known, and emerging—focusing on large-scale and complex installations that are impossible toRead More
National Stories
Do you Want Your Daughter to Break the Last Glass Ceiling? Me Too.
“Just pray to God. She will help you.” Alva Vanderbilt Belmont, 1916, President of the National Women’s Party, and the founder of the Political Equality League. After working as a key player in the Woman’s Suffrage movement, and seeing some success in the form of the 19th amendment in 1920, Alva Belmont reportedly withheld herRead More
Visiting Our New World Trade Center and Its Memorial
If you visit Manhattan this year be sure to stop at One World Trade Center (also 1 WTC), and the Freedom Memorial. It is important both to remember, and to educate future generations of the horrors of war, and the ongoing quest for peace. One WTC refers to the primary building of the new World TradeRead More