Botany and Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer is SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology and founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and …
Indigenous Wisdom
Eva Marie Carney, the mother of Elise Cohen, an outstanding piano student of mine, got me interested in Native American history many …
Art, Books & Movies
Five novels I have read over the last several decades have illuminated my understanding of famous artworks. The artists range from the …
Canopy Meg
What do you call a scientist who discovers a whole new continent above the earth’s forests? Whole tree enthusiast? True, but rather …
Dornoch’s Depths
What’s so special about Dornoch? What keeps us coming back year after year? Besides magnificent golf, cool weather, and gorgeous flowers, what …
Scottish Quarantine
Our five-week visit to Dornoch, Scotland began July 23 with a required 10-day quarantine. Ten days was just a quarter of the …
Boston Libraries
There’s a very special place in Boston I had never heard of untll Kevin Moore told me about it last winter and …
Proud Shoes
Proud Shoes is the first book I’ve read that presents the Civil War and its aftermath from the viewpoint of a free Black …
Height of Wisdom
Dr. Dorothy Height was a woman who knew how to get things done. The headquarters building of the National Council of Negro …
Finding Repose
Wallace Stegner’s novel, Angle of Repose, is a powerful portrait of pioneers in the Western United States in the years 1876-90, during …