Posts Tagged ‘earth’
The sounds of silence
01Oct19
READING — When brilliant, Radcliffe College-educated Henrietta Leavitt (played by Grace Sumner) receives a letter at her Wisconsin home inviting her to come and work for Edward Charles Pickering, director of the prestigious Harvard College Observatory, she is thrilled by the prospect of doing important astronomical research.
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Tags: astronomy, community theater, Demetra Tseckares, drama, earth, feminism, Grace Sumner, Harvard College Observatory, heavens, Henrietta Leavitt, History, Humor, Lauren Gunderson, Mark Sardella, Nancy Curran Willis, Nancy Finn, Nick T. Miller, planets, play, Quannapowitt Players, Rachel Furgiuele, Radcliffe College, review, science, Silent Sky, sky, stage, stars, theater, theatre, Wakefield Daily Item, womens sufferage
Make Main Street one-way
01Apr16
Sometimes the solutions to our problems are so close we overlook them. I am speaking of course of the new “Wakefield Walk” proposal that would make Main Street one-way heading north from the Melrose line to Lowell Street. The northbound lane would remain open to vehicular traffic with no changes. The southbound lane would become […]
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Tags: automobiles, bicycle path, bikes, business, carbon footprint, cars, Climate Change, earth, environment, Festival Italia, fossil fuels, Fred's Franks, Holliday Stroll, Lake Quannapowitt, Lynnfield, Main Street, Mark Sardella, Mother Earth, One-way, pedestrians, planet, rail trail, restaurants, sustainability, The Farmland, vendors, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield Walk, walking trail
