Father’s Day is upon us. It comes around once a year, dads come around once in a lifetime, so I thought, Dear Reader if you will indulge me, I’d like to offer up some random thoughts about my old man I am now 11 years older than he was when he died in […] Read more »
Alie Thurston, a naturalist presenter and lifetime summer resident with family dating back to 1914, called Cuttyhunk “the breadbasket of interpretive scientists” and said her favorite part of Old Hammondtown School’s annual trip to the island is “watching the shy students become adventurous by the end of their day.” The “Island Classroom” trip […] Read more »
Exciting news from the Mattapoisett (Historical Society) Museum was shared on June 11 with the introduction of the new curator, Connor Gaudet, who holds master’s degrees from Long Island University and New York University and brings an impressive range of experiences to the position. Gaudet said that he had been the oral history […] Read more »
This spring, the Mattapoisett Boy Scouts of Troop 53 embarked on a community service project with the building and installation of 10 birdhouses. The goal of the project was to benefit the community by providing habitat for birds that consume a lot of mosquitos. These houses were designed to attract wrens, bluebirds, swallows and […] Read more »
When I was a kid, I climbed the old maple tree in our front yard and sat in its high branches dreaming I was on a whaling ship sailing the seven seas seeking the great white one. Every kid has a dream. Maybe Captain Ahab was not in your dream. Maybe your dream was […] Read more »
Nicole Klein, a Mattapoisett business owner, said she grew up in the area as a musician. She says she initially did not know about the concert series to descend on Marion next month. Now she is a board member of the Buzzards Bay Musicfest about to celebrate its 25th season with five performances, starting on […] Read more »
Foxgloves are the most elegant flowers you can choose to decorate your garden. They are also the easiest to grow as they begin by developing a floral roseate arrangement at ground level and then grow upwards taller into double lipped petals. The developing statuesque petals can soon be plain white or bright yellow or […] Read more »
Editor’s Note: The Wanderer invited valedictorians and coheads of school student speakers, Jacob MacKinnon, Teddy Carroll, Aliyah Jordan and Liam Houck, to share the transcripts of their commencement speeches. Jacob MacKinnon Valedictorian, Old Colony Regional Vocational-Technical High School I want to start by saying welcome. Welcome to the families and friends that are […] Read more »
I haven’t been paying attention to the national news lately … it is too depressing … so when I happened to see an old newspaper headline saying, “Montana is the first state to ban TikTok,” I was confused and surprised. Confused because at first glance, I thought it meant clocks were being banned, particularly […] Read more »
The Barn Swallow is one of the most active insect and mosquito predators, fortunately well distributed around most of the natural world. It is very common everywhere across the continents of Europe, Asia and Africa, and it patrols the biggest part of the northern hemisphere. It ranks in public opinion as one of […] Read more »