Photo Essay
Pumpkin Float at Boston Common's Frog Pond
Part of this year's Pumpkin Float evening includes a chance to ride a carousel.
Carpenter Center Fourth Floor
Part of the fourth floor of the Carpenter Center is dedicated to students enrolled in drawing based studio courses.
Allston at Night
The benches at One Western Avenue sits quiet at night. The project, occupying a prominent site at the southeast corner of the Harvard Business School campus, represented Harvard's first step as it expanded its campus in Allston.
Photo Essay: Rockport
Just over an hour by car or commuter rail, Rockport, MA is an easy escape from the throes of daily Harvard life. Be overwhelmed by the crashing waves and sprawling rocks of Halibut Point State Park, enjoy scrumptious local fish, explore the culture on Bearskin Neck, and find your own adventure during a one day excursion. Getting the energy to leave the Harvard Bubble is the hard part, but your experience in Rockport will leave you refreshed, grounded, and stuffed.
Elephant Ear
Bearskin Neck is host to local dessert shops, such as Tuck's Candy or The Fudgery, where you can also buy Elephant Ears: face-sized, crunchy, cinnamon-swirled fried dough.
Harvard in Rockport
Either I drove in a circle for an hour, or this shop on Bearskin Neck is very confused.
Bearskin Neck
Bearskin Neck is the principal attraction in Rockport because of its delicious food, quaint shops, and vistas of the docks and ocean.
Lunch in Rockport
Local fish, in the form of fish and chips or a sandwich, is a must for lunch. Fresh catches dominate restaurant menus.
Ripples in the Quarry
A visitor threw a stick into the still, turquoise quarry, which created ripples that stretched across the pond.
The Quarry
Once a 20th century granite quarry called Babson Farm Quarry, the space now serves as a pool for ducks to swim and visitors to admire.
Rolleiflex
From the Rockport photoessay: A view of the ocean is seen through the viewfinder of a vintage dual-reflex Rolleiflex camera. The photographer looks down into the waist-level viewfinder to take a square, large format photograph.
Crashing Waves
On a windy day like Sunday, waves can reach several feet high and break over the long barrier of rocks.
Rocky Rockport
A former granite quarry, Halibut Point offers respite from busy student life with self-guided walking trails and expanisve views of the Atlantic ocean.
