Outside Vermont, Calvin Coolidge is remembered, if at all, as ‘Silent Cal’, the president notable only for keeping his mouth shut. The utter improbability of this persona in…
Werner Herzog’s fascinating documentary on the Chauvet Cave paintings, ‘Cave of Forgotten Dreams’, asks many questions but suggests answers to very few. How could people 30,000 years ago…
The best way to honor America’s military dead – whether those who died in service or those who returned to civilian life – is to gage how our country…
I can’t recall from my wasted youth whether it was the immortal Stan Freberg or the almost equally immortal Firesign Theatre that did a play by play of the…
My father read widely on archaeology all his years. On his bookshelves I recall a book whose title, if not its contents, fascinated me: The Mute Stones Speak. Those words…
Until the show ended abruptly in early 2010, I listened regularly to Barnes Newberry’s ‘Highway 61 Revisited’ on WUMB in Boston. I have mourned its loss. But today…
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