What I did during my week away (complete with linkage and tiny photos):

Watched lots of PBS: Store Wars (about Wal-mart invading Ashland, VA), Frontline’s Blackout episode (about the California power crisis), and some of a five-part documentary on New York in which I learned about the Triangle Factory fire in 1911 which claimed the lives of 146 garment workers, mostly women, some as young as 14.

Saw the Rose Center for Earth and Space. The sphere in a glass box architecture is striking. Here are two closeups (a side and a corner) of the metal doodads holding the glass together.

Visited the “Make Way For Ducklings” sculpture in the Boston Public Garden. My photo.

Found out that some people think Elizabeth Pain was the inspiration for “A Scarlet Letter” (her grave is at King’s Chapel), though it’s more likely that it was a young woman from Salem, MA who was sent her away to live with relatives in Virginia. (my photo of the headstone)

Discovered that they are building an IMAX theatre at the New England Aquarium. I suppose everyone else has one, so they’re keeping up with the Joneses. I took a photo of the construction.