5+ hour, 33+ min ago  (33+ words) Bar Harbor Story | Carrie Jones | Substack Author Talk with Margie Patlak: Insect Safari Thursday, July 23 at 5: 30pm at the Jesup Memorial Library...

11+ hour, 47+ min ago  (210+ words) Excerpted with permission from the publisher Native Nations: A Millennium in North America, Kathleen Du Val, Profile Books, an imprint of Hachette India. in the eighteenth century, but I had a lot to learn too. As I concentrated on making…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (359+ words) Two decades after the Great Famine, four out of over 40 homesteads survive in a townland on a western Irish peninsula. With scant crops and a wife and family depending upon his initiative, skillful self-taught cartographer Tom's translates placenames for the…...

17+ hour, 32+ min ago  (138+ words) The Editors | July 3, 2026 Today we are bringing you an excerpt from Box Garden Beetle, the first volume of manga by Kondoh Akino to be released in the U. S. (Nothing Whatsoever All Out in the Open, a 50-page magazine-sized comic, was published…...

17+ hour, 37+ min ago  (880+ words) Authors and activists Annie Leonard and Andre Carothers are optimistic about the future. It's the present that gives them pause. "If one takes the longer view," Leonard said in a conversation with Yale Climate Connections before their appearance at Washington,…...

1+ day, 37+ min ago  (210+ words) A mischievous penguin, a dramatic seaside rescue, and a tale of forgiveness take centre stage in a new children's book. Pippin the Penguin is a rhyming children's picture book by author Jackie Barrett, who has fond memories of Tenby, and…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (390+ words) A'locally produced children's picture book with a strong message of conservation was launched last week, highlighting how the Karioi Project's trapping programme is helping restore native biodiversity. Entitled "Bringing Back the Bird Song', the full-colour publication is the work of…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (539+ words) 03 Jul 2026 | By Imthiaz Bakeer Markar Earlier this month, while travelling abroad for a few days, I stepped into a bookshop and was immediately drawn to a particular book. I read a few pages, and before long I decided to buy…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (169+ words) Review of the Week Plus " new Nerve events on sale Stella Tsantekidou on the ground at London's "anti-woke Davos' Tate Modern's Frida Kahlo show reviewed Chilled soup! Jose Pizarro's tomato and fig recipe And coming this Sunday: part four of…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (585+ words) My mother wrote a poem, "The Man Who Loved Trees," in memory of her grandfather, Louis August Maier. Another poem she called, "Milwaukee Trees." In the latter, she writes " " huge beech trees wear initials in their smooth pale bark and,…...