For far less of a walk, you could just travel down Dwight Street and see this view of the Charles.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Various reviews of the Shattuck Reservation talk about how good of a trail it is for mountain bikers, snowshoers,...
While the foliage was pretty, much of the water had a green film on top of it.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
In my opinion, “Jaws” is the scariest movie of all time, and to be blunt, it’s not even close. My rationale is...
Almost all of the boats opted to head away from, rather than towards the South Street Bridge.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
You know when you take young children to the beach, and you play with them in the creek or along the waterline...
The Endean Trail begins just to the right of Dog Rock, which makes parking a bit tricky.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
At the Tweeter Center, I once watched Jerry Lee Lewis sing “Great Balls of Fire” to about a hundred people who mostly...
With more and more entertainment options opening up in Massachusetts, this mountain biker was the lone other person in the Barber woods on Friday afternoon.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
If for no reason other than to see somewhere new in Sherborn, on Friday...
How was I supposed to not go on the railroad tracks, at the end of this trail?
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Just this year, we lost two of the few remaining mysteries in America. Fenn’s Treasure, a chest of gold and jewels worth...
The buds are close to blooming, but not quite ready to go.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
There’s a very famous short story by Ray Bradbury called “All Summer in a Day” that’s widely touted as one of the saddest things ever written. Basically, the story...
While it might not look like much in the photograph, this dam is much higher and louder you would think.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Why are people so infatuated with some obsolete technologies, but don’t care at all about others? It’s a...
A man fishes with a family of (invasive) mute swans in the background.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
It was hot on Saturday, June 6. Really, really hot. And I had to hike around the Blue Heron Trail at Cutler Park before the rain...
A family poses at the newly-reopened Rocky Woods
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
When they asked George Mallory why he wanted to hike Mount Everest, he famously replied “because it’s there.” For decades, people have (while wrongly attributing it to Edmund Hillary) declared this...
After a horse lost its shoe, I found it and hung it on a tree.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Most trails are too crowded to achieve a real sense of solitude. The whole idea that you can venture into the woods of the...
