By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
A child of the activist ’60s, Hal Hamilton spent decades in Kentucky as a farmer, rural community activist and nonprofit director. He helped pioneer alternative food and agricultural systems that are kind to the environment and provide a livelihood for small farmers –...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Writer and former English teacher Maggie Shannon knew she wanted to spend her golden years on Maine’s “Golden Pond.” In childhood she had spent every summer on Great Pond, which inspired the play and movie, and her heart drew her back. So when she was in her 60s, she...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
With half of all teachers leaving the profession within their first five years, Ellen Moir, a lifelong educator, knew that new teachers everywhere were being inadequately prepared and poorly supported – leaving students and strapped school districts to pay the price....
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
More than a third of female-headed, single-parent households with children younger than 5 in Massachusetts live below the federal poverty level. Those most affected by this poverty – children – have a fierce advocate in Mary Reed. Her own mother was the first black...
