Hot Diggity 24 North Street Mashpee Commons Mashpee, Massachusetts Telephone: (866) 4-HOTDIG Website: HotDiggityOnline.com Hot diggity indeed! Just look at all these baked goodies! We spent a delicious half hour visiting this store, exploring its offerings of “Posh Products for You and Your Pup” and getting to know Cooper, the rescue dog helping his owner manage the place that day.… Read more →
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North Harwich, Massachusetts: Derbyfield Kennel
Derbyfield Kennel 556 Depot Street North Harwich, Massachusetts Telephone: (508) 432-2510 Website: DerbyfieldKennel.com This family-run kennel in the Mid-Cape region offers one guest feature this well-traveled terrier has seen nowhere else: visiting hours! Between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m., owners may check their dogs out of the kennel – which meant Brontë and I were able to… Read more →
Birch Mountain Day School: Best-Ever Birthday Party!
Best-Ever Birthday Party! Birch Mountain Day School Wednesday 4 March 2009 Manchester, Connecticut To celebrate my 15th birthday, I loaded up the Chaucermobile with my family and took a jaunt down to Birch Mountain Day School, where I’d done a photo shoot last year for Learning Is Cool… It’s the First Day of School. My little friends there had created… Read more →
Photo Shoot: Central Elementary School
Photo Shoot Central Elementary School Friday 13 February 2009 New Ipswich, New Hampshire What better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day than by meeting 20 new friends?! My People and I recently visited Central Elementary School right here in New Ipswich to take photographs with Mrs. Hutchins’s second-grade class. The students and I made Valentines Read more →
Saugus, Massachusetts: Breakheart Reservation
Breakheart Reservation 177 Forest Street Saugus, Massachusetts Telephone: (781) 233-0834 Website: Masspark.org When you happen upon an area formed by glaciers, odds are you’ll find plenty of enormous boulders perfect for clambering up and over and standing atop to play king of the mountain. Called “erratics,” these remnants of the ice age abound at Breakheart Reservation, a 700-acre park that… Read more →
College Quidditch World Cup: Middlebury College
College Quidditch World Cup Middlebury College Sunday 26 October 2008 Middlebury, Vermont Middlebury College, where students adapted J.K. Rowling’s imaginary game of quidditch for the real world several years ago, hosted the second annual World Quidditch Cup – and Brontë and I were there! In between games, visitors enjoyed entertainment from The Flying Fists, a stilt-walking, flame-throwing troupe, and the… Read more →
Annual Fall Dogfest, Dog Mountain, St. Johnsbury, Vermont
Annual Fall Dogfest Dog Mountain Sunday 12 October 2008 St. Johnsbury, Vermont My “little” sister and The Boy and I had a marvelous time at artist Stephen Huneck’s annual dog party on Dog Mountain in gorgeous Vermont. Next year, Brontë is participating in the “best swimmer” competition! Read more →
Nashua, New Hampshire: Greeley Park
Greeley Park 105 Concord Street Nashua, New Hampshire The shade cast by its abundant collection of mature trees is reason enough to visit this beautiful, old-fashioned city park on a hot summer’s day. From wide expanses of well-tended grass to woodland trails, the property – donated by a resident of the city more than 100 years ago – is a… Read more →
Amherst, New Hampshire: The Black Forest Cafe
The Black Forest Café 212 Route 101 Amherst, New Hampshire Telephone: (603) 672-0500 Website: TheBlackForestCafe.com Read more →
Book Signing and Art Demonstration, New Ipswich Library, New Ipswich, New Hampshire
Book Signing and Art Demonstration New Ipswich Library Thursday 14 August 2008 New Ipswich, New Hampshire Illustrator John Clarke joined me at my hometown library for a tail-wagging good time with the local kids (and members of the local Red Hat Club, as you can see from the photographs…) to mark the official launch of Learning Is Cool… It’s the… Read more →