One of our local geological attractions in the Cape Ann region of topographical anomalies is Rafe’s Chasm (once known as Rafe’s Crack). Located on the shores of …

Quirky people fascinate me.… Take certain kinds of collectors. Some collect snippets of rusty 19th-century barbed wire. Others swipe barf bags (unused), printed with company

Paul Erickson

At 4:30 AM on 18 November 1775, an earthquake rocked eastern Massachusetts, tilting church steeples, and sending the grasshopper weathervane atop Boston’s Faneuil Hall hopping to the plaza below. Today, geologists link this …

I’d like to tell you about the huge “killer” clams I’ve photographed on Indo-Pacific coral reefs. And I will. But first, I’d like to pay homage to our local softshell clam (Mya arenaria), famously harvested in my hometown of Ipswich, Massachusetts, which is located just a few flaps of a gull’s wing from Cape Ann. …

You’re a salamander. A spotted salamander in a forest on Cape Ann. Spring has arrived and you’ve been sheltered underground in an abandoned mole tunnel for the last eleven months. …