I don’t see many people sitting in the shade of a tree these days. I think air conditioning and television changed tree sitting and many other things too. When I was young, and I have to admit that ...

Last summer, I learned that the beloved maple tree in our front yard had brittle cinder fungus and was rotting from the bottom up. Nearly the entire base had turned black, and, worse, the bark ...

One of the things I love about fall is the chance to sit in the cooler garden and just listen and observe. From my chair under the maple tree, I can see the birds coming and going from the birdfeeder ...

There are plenty of places to get in on the sweet tradition of turning maple-tree sap into syrup in southeastern Wisconsin ...

In the early days of the museum, the focus was on sharing old items collected by the Wells family, who founded Old Sturbridge ...