Garden planning began in earnest for seasoned gardeners when seed catalogs started arriving in January and as flower related ads increased online. Our single-digit days were a little less brutal when surveying seed offerings from favorite suppliers. Now months later, seed displays greet ...
I can see a robin and a crocus in my yard. Some kind of partially frozen precipitation, about the consistency of a Slurpee, is falling on them both. It was April 15, tax day, almost 34 years ago, when my daughter Molly and I hit town. We had just come from Boca Grande, Fla., and it seemed ...
On Saturday, March 29, Marie Cogar was crowned the 20th Mad Hatter at the annual Mad Hatter’s Benefit for Creative Healing Connections held at the Hotel Saranac. In addition, board president Helene Gibbens announced that the organization will once again hold traditional two-night retreats ...
Champions and historians of skiing were celebrated in Lake Placid over March 26 to 30, while another, the most accomplished US cross-country skier in history, Jessie Diggins, was burning up the Mount Van Hoevenberg course. As a consequence, it was nearly a perfect storm of skiing ...
The Temple Beth El, in Williamsburg, was recently once again a forum for a Sunday lecture. This time it was Dr. Joel Levine, who spent 41 years at NASA as Senior Research Scientist in the Science Directorate at NASA Langley Research Center and as Mars Scout Program Scientist at NASA ...
As I write this column, it is April first. I hate practical jokes, but I wouldn’t mind so much if they were limited to one day a year when I could stay home and not answer the phone. A day like today, April Fools’ Day. The conventional wisdom is that nobody knows how or when April ...