Tin Cup Adventures, a traveling, hands-on living history museum, brought the past to life for East Taunton Elementary students Wednesday by turning their gymnasium into a pioneer settlement. Students participated in dozens of authentic pioneer activities at various learning center displays featuring real artifacts, photographs, and information that could be experienced through touch. Kids can see what life was like at a very different time, and see what it was like when they didnt have all...

Even as someone who agrees wholeheartedly with the message, the message fails the milieu and good intentions bog down for lack of a more compelling cinematic arc. Meanwhile, the soldiers assigned to carry out the new strategy have left the comfort of the American base in Bagram on their way to a remote, hilly region of Afghanistan, dangerously close to the Iran border and covered in snow. The senator took the hyperbolic headline to heart and now wishes to repay her unintentional compliment...

Particpants create either a stock racer using a whole zucchini or a custom racer which includes some part of a zucchini. Not only are they being judged and given feedback on what they have learned with their clubs over the year, they are completing a vital community service effort as "teachers" - educating Fair visitors, young and old alike, about their projects. The demonstration, or exhibition, is about the natural partnership and harmony between horse and human, on the ground and...

Canadian Gordon Halloran has been hired to create a sweeping, multi-colored ice canvas 95 feet long and 12 feet highnear the famous reflecting sculpture at Millennium Park. They might get their tongues stuck, the 60-year-old artist said during a news conference Thursday announcing his display, which will run through February. The Hingham developer had just finished building new youth athletic fields on Beal Street, and just as the grass started to sprout, a hungry, honking flock of Canada...

Hal Ellis continued with the company he and the Grubb brothers had formed, and served as its chairman and chief executive until 1992. He went on and built a truly outstanding boutique residential real estate company that is the leader in its market area. He was interested in being the best at one thing, with a lot of discipline, focus and goal orientation. Grubb traveled extensively and was a cook, photographer and family man, said his son. The privately held company has 58 agents. Georgia...