Let's start by taking a tour of the Easton Curiosity Shop. I've included six links to other sites and a link to one blog. The blog belongs to Stonehill Professor Emeritus Chet Raymo. Chet wrote a weekly science for the Boston Globe for many years and continues to produce elegant prose and thought provoking ideas on his blog.
The first link to Arts and Letters Daily is another pathway to interesting ideas. It posts dozens of articles on the humanities and includes many links to news sites and bloggers. I'm sure this site will provide the basis for many posts here.
The next link takes you to the National Geographic website. Much of the science news coming in today is extremely negative, a completely warranted view given the total ineptitude of our national government in dealing with crucial science issues. The National Geographic site has its share of bad news, but there is much that is optimistic and fascinating. Check out this "infinite" picture of life on a Pacific island
The third link takes you to the increasingly excellent town government website. With an event calendar and links to departments, commissions, and local non-profits, it's a good spot to get in the know.
Next comes the Ames Free Library, recently voted one of the best small libraries in America. Visit the site to find the numerous events the library sponsors, and have your library card ready to use to gain access to many databases not accessible from the web.
Wicked Local is the website for the Easton Journal. The journal doesn't have an RSS feed like Easton Patch or the Enterprise, but it is updated often and is a good source of information.
The last link takes you to Easton Community Access Television. Just entering its second year of operation ECAT offers an increasing amount of programming.
Below the links are two RSS feeds that regularly update news from Easton Patch and the Brockton Enterprise, and if you still haven't gotten enough local news, I've set Google to scanning the web for Easton news.
I look at all these local news feeds like the good information (and gossip) you can find at Dunkin' or Little Peach. That's the backbone of the Shop. Starting tomorrow we'll focus on the curiosity
Welcome
A curiosity shop is a place of odds and ends in a wide range of categories. One never knows what one will find on any visit, and that is the goal of this blog. Here you'll find postings on doings around Easton, the world's environment, history, recipes, fly fishing, books, music, and movies with many other things thrown in as well. Hope you enjoy it and keep coming back.
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