by Kristin Palpini | Feb 24, 2016 | Articles, Letters from our Readers, News
Slavery study would be divisive Your expectation that HR 40 has no chance is valid (Between the Lines: Congress Keeps Killing Conversation on Race” Feb. 18-24, 2016). The concern is that after the conclusion of the investigation there will be a louder call and greater...
by Hunter Styles | Feb 24, 2016 | Articles
In Goshen, salvaging cast-iron stoves isn’t just a business — it’s an art. I spent my childhood in the backseat of a car driving Route 112 from Ashfield to Northampton. At the Goshen border, I would always gaze out my window at the cluttered and colorful...
by Hunter Styles | Feb 16, 2016 | Articles
For his newest production, theater director Josh Moyse has been shopping online for costume pieces. Finally, he found what he needed. “The dog collar just came in the mail today,” he tells me by phone, “and I’m really excited about it.” That leather dog collar will go...
by Kristin Palpini | Feb 16, 2016 | Articles, Between the Lines, News
Every congressional session U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) files H.R. 40, a bill to study the impact of slavery on the nation. And every congressional session it dies in committee. That’s where the tenth submission of this bill, filed in January of last year, is...
by Chuck Shepherd | Feb 16, 2016 | Articles, News, News of the Weird
Wired.com’s most recent “Absurd Creature” feature shows a toad devouring a larva of a much-smaller beetle, but the “absurdity” is that the larva is in charge and that the toad will soon be beetle food. The larva’s Darwinian advantage is that, inside the toad, it bites...
