After speeches, children from the Soldiers and Sailors ... dead in a Memorial Day tradition that dates back to the poem In Flanders Fields, written in 1915 by John McCrae. Inspired by the poems ...

The statue by renowned sculptor Ruth Abernethy imagines McCrae at the moment he looks up from the notebook where he has just signed his name to what would be published as "In Flanders Fields." ...

Wooden poles support hop vines tied onto wires in nearby fields, growing up to seven metres ... The Exilium memorialises thousands of children evacuated from the Westhoek (southwest Flanders) region ...

2025 Haiku Festival – Calling all poets both near and far to enter the Mukai Farm and Gardens sixth year of the festival. Submittals are welcome until April 14. Haiku is a 17-syllable unrhymed poetic ...

“How Elegant the Elephant: Poems About Animals and Insects” by Mary Ann Hoberman, illustrated by Marla Frazee: These are my favorite kind of children’s poems: rhyming with a bouncy cadence ...

“Spring still makes spring in the mind / When sixty years are told: / Love wakes anew this throbbing heart, / And we are ...

In a development project as big as Sharswood, there was a lot of cement being poured. That opened up possibilities — and a ...

DEAR READERS: Wishing you and your families a very happy Easter and Passover. Spring is a time to get outdoors and play. It ...

She told the Worcester Evening Gazette that she wrote the original 10 verses of the poem between 1957 and 1967, during her time as a teacher at the Ruggles Lane School in Barre, as a way to teach ...

Paul Revere raced through the Massachusetts country side on horseback to warn patriot leaders that British soldiers were on ...