Halloween is just around the corner, and if you have a child or are a child at heart, you’re probably thinking about your costume. For most of us, the fun of dreaming up costume ideas comes once a year at the end of October. Still, if you’re a professional costume designer like Lisa ...
The other “Miracle on Ice” is the impact that Sonja Henie had not just on the United States during the 1932 Winter Olympics, but through the media, on people the world over. In Lake Placid, the then European phenom took our country by storm, lifting the spirits of so many beaten down ...
As a marker that the season has changed, the last Keene Valley Farmers Market was held Sunday, Oct. 12. Beset by swarms of yellow jackets — particularly at stations selling maple syrup, wine and other beverages and comestibles fancied by these brazen insects — and threatened by gusting ...
When lighting designer Justyn T. Davis discussed light, I thought of the Ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus and his famous saying about rivers. The exact phrasing is unknown, but the most common version is, “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and ...
For a shoulder season weekend, the Olympic Regional Development Authority has been exceptionally busy, hosting the WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series (Elite and Junior divisions), this time expanded to two venues and attracting over 14,000 attendees. Still, if that wasn’t enough, ...
You’ll find this hard to believe, but in Arizona scientists have discovered that at any given time a significant number of so-called “worker” ants are not working at all. These ants are slacking off, defying expectations by acting the part of the proverbial grasshopper instead of the part ...