Poetry: First Acts

Poetry: First Acts

By L. R Berger Filling the teapot at the tap, turning on the burner—   praise be for the day’s first acts requiring no imagination, no choices of consequence.   You can be half asleep and already a success at life,   draw encouragement mastering the...
Off the shelf

Off the shelf

‘Chasing Eden: A Book of Seekers’ Seekers are all around us. They are seeking God, seeking freedom, seeking peace. “Chasing Eden: A Book of Seekers” (Bauhan Publishing) by Howard Mansfield is about this pursuit, about Americans seeking their Promised Land, their...
Giving the gift of connection

Giving the gift of connection

By CASSIDY JENSEN During the second winter of a pandemic that has increased isolation for many older people, a long-standing program that provides holiday gifts to seniors has taken on new significance. As shoppers search for gifts for friends and family this holiday...
Fast faves with Liz Short

Fast faves with Liz Short

As the executive director of Five Rivers Conservation Trust, the Concord area’s nonprofit land trust, Liz Short knows the importance of conserving wild places, open spaces and working lands in local communities. So we asked Liz to tell us some of her favorite outdoor...
A Thousand Words: A big weekend in January

A Thousand Words: A big weekend in January

Each winter, weather permitting, hockey enthusiasts from across New England and beyond flock to Concord for the city ’s annual 1883 Black Ice Pond Hockey Championships in White Park. There, they find hockey rinks neatly segmented on the ice where players of all ages...