Mention “the reservoir” to people in Brookline today and they will probably think of one of two bodies of water: the Chestnut Hill Reservoir or the Brookline Reservoir. But there were once three reservoirs on Fisher Hill. Read about them at bit.ly/bk-reservoirs

Free walking tour, this Sunday.

The triangle formed by Washington, Harvard, and School Streets in Brookline Village could be called the Municipal Triangle. I tell the first part of its story in Part 1 of an illustrated and narrated presentation at bit.ly/pierceschool...

DOGE: Department of Government Efficiency? More like Department of Gratuitous Elimination

This is just a very small sample of the online resources made available through public libraries in Brookline and elsewhere with help from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, one of the Federal agencies that Trump plans to abolish.

Brookline's oldest restaurant. (Or is it?) brooklinehistory.blogspot.com/2025/03/broo...

I was surprised to learn via the New York Times today that some Jews in the second century BC lived a half-hour train ride outside Rome. But, sure enough, there is ancient photo evidence.

Happy to be resuming my North End tour guide gig -- through a tour company -- today. A broken foot kept me off the trail last fall.

Just back from the audiologist, so I thought I would share this list I created three years ago after seeing an ad for Styletto hearing aids. Enjoy these other possible hearing aids named after shoes.

I took this picture around the corner from my house eight years ago today, two weeks into the first Trump presidency. If it seemed prophetic then, it seems even more so now.

Listening to "Stephen Miller's Return to Power" on the NYT Daily podcast, I was reminded of this 2018 piece written by his uncle. Miller's ancestors came to the US from the same Belarus shtetl that my grandfather and his parents and siblings came from. Shame on him. www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

Sunset over the Stop & Shop parking lot last night.

I've been taking many pictures of the demolition of my daughters' old school, and also had this letter about it published in response to an article in the Brookline News. brookline.news/re-what-to-k...

A 19th century Cape Cod shipwreck, an Italian sea captain, and a Brookline house built in 1843 and still standing today. Learn the connection between them in this presentation at the Brookline library this Wednesday, 7:00-8:30 pm. brooklinelibrary.libcal.com/event/13577588

The plastic sheet covering Cypress Field only looks like ice, but once upon a time there actually was ice skating on the field. (Public Library photo)

I don't think I've ever had a fortune that fits me so well.