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My brother-in-law's Boston Terrier died last month. I met him in 2016. And to be honest, he wasn't initially my favorite. He was loud, hyperactive, and insistent with his demands for endless rounds of fetch. Back then, my BIL also had another dog, a large older

Had the first meeting of the Sunday Wander Society. 4 of us - all experienced wanderers - met at the corner of Stockholm and Onderdonk in Ridgewood, near the border between Queens and Brooklyn. One of us dug some dice out of her bag and said "In case we

Before the lawyers and treaties and the Court of International Trade, Manhattan and the surrounding area had a very different set of diplomatic rituals. For centuries before the arrival of Europeans, the Lenape and surrounding indigenous groups used wampum to strengthen ties between groups. Wampum is mostly made from the