By Maggie Ewing, AmeriCorps Museum Educator “Can an adult sit on this?” I’m walking through Bone Zone when a visitor catches my attention and gestures to his granddaughter, who’s riding a bicycle alongside a skeleton. He laughs, pointing out the skeleton’s pedaling leg bones. “Oh, yeah,” I tell him, “it’s strong enough.” His question expresses [...]
By Katy Killilea Nominally, they’re both farms, but neither is the kind where you can buy food. Coggeshall Farm is a farm museum, and Mount Hope Farm is a park for easy hiking. They are very close to each other and both are ideal little stops for kids in Bristol. On our trip, we started [...]
The New York Times travel section recently ran a feature detailing how to spend thirty-six hours in Providence. They listed many of my favorites—although now that I have kids, my thirty-six hours tend to include even more family-friendly places. Here are my local additions: 1. Have coffee on the patio outside at Seven Stars on [...]
By Katy Killilea Children love nature and love figuring out how the world works. Little sponge-brain scientists that they are, they study nonfiction books and can often demonstrate perfect recall of the facts they learn. I do not know why my kids turn to me for information on the natural world; I mean, I get [...]
By Michelle Riggen-Ransom Lately I’ve been spending far too much time over at the Pop!Tech blog, blinding myself with science. I need more nature! Fortunately, I have a lovely husband and son who’ve been tending to our garden over these past few weeks, so I wanted to provide a mid-summer garden check-in. Let me remind [...]
