Author: Marie Winn
Title: Central Park in the Dark
Publication Info: New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008.
ISBN: 9780374120115
Summary/Review:
This series of essays follows Winn and her cohorts over a decade spent observing the wildlife of an urban place, New York City’s Central Park. Winn tells of encounters with red-tailed hawks, grackles, moths, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Nature’
25 Aug
Book Review: Central Park in the Dark by Marie Winn
25 Jun
FREE Tour of Jamaica Pond on Saturday!
The Jamaica Plain Historical Society debuts its newest neighborhood tour of Jamaica Pond this Saturday, June 27th at 11 am. The 90-minute walking tour will discuss the residential, industrial, and recreational history of this scenic gem. The tour departs from the bandstand near the intersection of Pond Street and Jamaicaway, and yours truly will be [...]
20 Jun
Boston Walking Tours 2009
Last year I posted a list of walking tours in the Boston area in hopes of encouraging people to get out and explore the history, architecture, culture, topography, and nature of the area. I’ve updated the list and links for 2009, once again giving primacy of place to the two organizations in which I volunteer [...]
27 May
Photopost: Boston Nature Center
Did you know that Boston has a nature center? I didn’t until I moved to Jamaica Plain and saw that it was fairly close to our house as the crow flies. Despite this knowledge it’s taken me a year and a half to finally make the 1.5-mile walk to Mass Audubon’s Boston Nature Center and [...]
11 May
Arnold Arboretum’s Lilac Sunday
I hesistate to put “Lilac Sunday” into the title of this post since I didn’t see any lilacs on my visit. Susan, Peter & I took a lovely Mother’s Day walk on a sunny, blustery day and arrived at Arnold Arboretum fairly early in the morning. This is a good time to get there on [...]
5 Jan
Book Review: Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man by Dale Peterson
In my childhood, I enjoyed National Geographic specials about a slight English woman who would sit in the Tanzanian forest by the Gombe River and observe chimpanzees. In college I read one of her books, Through a Window: My Thirty Years With the Chimpanzees of Gombe and became even more deeply enamored with the woman [...]
22 Nov
Book Review: Trawler by Redmond O’Hanlon
Trawler (2003) by Redmond O’Hanlon is one of those books where a novice goes on board a commercial fishing boat to see how hard life is for the trawlermen and finds it hard in ways one never imagined. No big surprise there, but what O’Hanlon does in this book is write almost entirely in dialogue [...]
29 Oct
Fall Foliage Festival at Arnold Arboretum
On Sunday, October 26th, the Arnold Arboretum hosted their first ever Fall Foliage Festival, an autumnal counterpart to spring’s Lilac Sunday. What a great idea! I mean why drive to New Hampshire and Vermont for leaf peeping when there’s a little bit of the great outdoors right here in Jamaica Plain? The timing is difficult [...]
15 Aug
Book Review: A Pocketful of History by Jim Noles
A Pocketful of History: Four Hundred Years of America — One State Quarter at a Time (2008) by Jim Noles takes the State Quarter Program as a launching point for an engaging look at the 50 United States and the symbols chosen to represent them. Often, Noles goes beyond simply telling the history of the [...]
20 Jun
Book Review: The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
When I was a kid, my grandfather grew string beans and tomatoes in a planting box on his balcony 23-stories above a major elevated highway interchange in Brooklyn. My sister and I would smirk as my grandmother proudly stated “Your grandfather grew these himself,” as she ladled the limp, brownish-green string beans on our plates. [...]
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