Close your eyes and ask yourself, “What does Harvard look like?” What do you see? Brick buildings, perhaps? Iron gates, Corinthian columns, sweeping façades? You’d be right if you conjured any of the ...

James A. Carpenter, 92, of Canton, died Sept. 21. Happiness, for Jim Carpenter, was finding that special rock, that hunk of brownstone or old paving stone. He loved to build stone walls and was ...

VAUGHN, Mont. — They call the lumber harvested from trees killed by mountain pine beetles blue pine. The beetles that burrow into those trees leave their marks in bluish gray, often mixed with greens, ...