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Boston Globe
19-05-2025
- Sport
- Boston Globe
Crews demolishing McCoy Stadium find 85-year-old time capsule
The Get Rhode Map A weekday briefing from veteran Rhode Island reporters, focused on the things that matter most in the Ocean State. Enter Email Sign Up 'Eighty-five years ago a time capsule was placed into the cornerstone of McCoy Stadium, and today that piece of the stadium's long and proud history has been found,' Pawtucket Mayor Donald R. Grebien said in a statement. Advertisement The time capsule is now being held in a secure location by the Pawtucket Police Department. The stadium is being demolished to make way for the $314 million In March, an excavator stood in centerfield, looking toward home plate at McCoy Stadium. Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff The Pawtucket Red Sox called the city-owned stadium home for half a century before the Triple-A affiliate of the Boston Red Sox left McCoy for Worcester and a new stadium that Advertisement Grebien said construction and demolition crews are continuing to look for a second time capsule, with items commemorating the longest professional baseball game, that former PawSox management and players believe to be buried somewhere between the former stadium's home plate and pitcher's mound. If found, the contents of that time capsule also will be unveiled at the June 23 event, he said. Pawtucket City Council President Terrence E. Mercer, whose District 3 includes the site, said, 'I'm pleased that this time capsule has been found and preserved so it can be shared with future generations of Pawtucket residents as a reminder of the stadium's proud history.' Mercer, who grew up next to McCoy, said he's sad to see the stadium being demolished, but 'thrilled' that it will soon be home to the city's new high school. Pawtucket School Committee Chairman Omar Reyes said, 'The demolition of the former McCoy Stadium is paving the way for the future of Pawtucket students as we prepare to start construction on our new Pawtucket High School. Finding this time capsule is a reminder of the stadium's long and proud history, a history that will be incorporated into our new high school for future generations of students to cherish and learn from.' Chris Maury, head Rhode Island operations at Shawmut Design and Construction, said, 'It was an exciting moment for our team to discover, identify, and carefully preserve the capsule found in the stadium's original cornerstone.' He said the crews are using ground-penetrating radar to search for the second time capsule. 'We remain committed to a safe, respectful process every step of the way,' he said. Advertisement Demolition of McCoy Stadium is scheduled to be completed by the end of May. Edward Fitzpatrick can be reached at
Boston Globe
23-04-2025
- General
- Boston Globe
Hard work and honesty: Life on a family dairy farm in Vermont
'He's a wild man,' said John's mother, Kellie Jenkins. 'He's the one who does the tours when people come here on the farm. He'll tell you all about it, show off all his animals. 'When he was born, he was given his first cow, and it was registered in his name. So now he owns six animals. So, he's pretty proud of that,' she added. Jenkins says he shows the dairy cows through the 4-H club. John Jenkins Jr., 6, at the Hard Climb Farm hangs out with the twin calves and a cat, that belongs to Amish neighbors but lives to visit. Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff 'He's got all his little fun ribbons, but he's one of the kiddos that is the most helpful,' she said. 'He sees poop under a cow, the one's not his, and he'll go help scrape it up. He's a big helper around the farm here. He loves to be with his dad, loves living on the farm.' The 48-acre farm raises cows, chickens, ducks, and quail. They sell the milk and eggs along with maple products and local handmade items, in a small, enclosed farm stand. It is open 24/7 and is unattended. Jenkins says it successfully operates on the honor system. Advertisement 'I don't think we've ever gotten hugely stiffed. Maybe a couple of bucks here or there because people don't know how to do math,' she said. 'But everything seems to be working out.' They have a camera at the stand, she says, gesturing toward the ceiling. 'We want to extend the honesty and trust to the community, and that goes a long way.' Advertisement Kellie Jenkins Jr., the Hard Climb Farm Stand, logs in raw milk and eggs to be sold on the honor system. Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff The clientele that rides by their farm, on Route 100, is eclectic. There's the Amish who settled nearby and use horse and buggies to clip-clop along at 10 miles per hour. There's city folk in SUVs and trucks zipping to a local ski resort, and there's also the Quebec neighbors. There's no doubt Canadians have been shaken by both the tariff talk and the overall tone of the Trump administration. 'Anybody who comes here and who might bring up that conversation, my husband automatically apologizes like, 'This isn't right. None of this is,' ' she said. The family welcomes them all. One of the rules posted on the wall reads 'Mind our own biscuits.' The political uncertainty is also bad for business, Jenkins says. Mud season at the Hard Climb Farm and Stand. Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff 'It's pinched us for a little bit where nobody wanted to come over across the border,' she said. 'I think it's easing back a little bit. I think people are like, 'You know what? It is what it is.' We'll see how the summer goes. " On Easter Sunday the close-knit family all worked together to milk and feed the 45 milking cows and clean the barn. Touring with John Jr. is fun. Mud doesn't faze him. He's been adopted by a cat that belongs to an Amish family down the road, that follows him around. He'll warn you to stay clear of the bull who likes to poke people, as he climbs around the barn like it's a jungle gym. John Jenkins Jr., 6, with the baby chicks he helps raise. Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff A chicken roosts at the Hard Climb Farm in a makeshift greenhouse coop. Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff He likes to kiss the baby chicks before returning them to warming lights. He's got a bicycle tractor that he uses to haul hay, and he follows his dad around doing chores, including milking the cows. Advertisement The farm sells raw milk, which is tested to meet state regulations. As part of the rules, people who buy it must leave their contact information. 'Raw milk is real milk, straight from our cows,' Jenkins said. 'We drink it, and my son's grown up on it. There's a lot of research out there, so people can make their own determinations.'' They also sell fresh chicken, duck, and quail eggs. Kellie Jenkins talks about her dairy cows at the Hard Climb Farm. Of concerns about bacteria in the raw milk, she says: We're going to always promote real milk and things like that. But I understand if people are weary. There are good and bad bacterias. It's the bad bacteria that really get people concerned. Ours is tested ….we've never had any concerns from our customer base.' Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff 'The egg scare was something else,' Jenkins said, referring to recent shortages and rising prices. 'We couldn't keep our eggs on the shelf. … Ours are still only $6 a dozen, which is still reasonable. People were totally understanding.' She believes the egg scare is over, but 'we'll see.' Life isn't easy in the Kingdom, but it sure is beautiful. 'We're a small, genuine family farm,' she said. 'I think we're going to stay in it as long as we can, as long as it makes sense.'' John Jenkins Jr., 6, feeding some of the 45 milking cows on the Farm. Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff She also works full time as a director at Ready, Set, Grow Childcare, in Newport, Vt., to help make ends meet. Now she watches as John Jr. reclines on his tractor, like he's doing a celebrity shoot for Vanity Fair. 'It's a great place to raise a kid… Here, it's all manual labor. Our best friend is a shovel and a pitchfork and a wheelbarrow.' John Jenkins Jr., 6, takes the neighbor's cat for a ride all the chores are done. 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Boston Globe
14-04-2025
- Climate
- Boston Globe
The blossoming of Boston? Wait for it . . .
Quincy Market is reflected in the window of the Sam Adams tap room as the skies clear after a rain. Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff Here's an example: A photograph is shot at a local sporting event. A teenager is approached for comment. The photographer identifies himself as being from The Boston Globe. Advertisement 'What is that?' says the teen. Told that it is a newspaper, the teen looks puzzled. The weather and the Red Sox are safe topics. A new season is a clean slate. The Red Sox infielders stand together freezing during a pitching change against Toronto on a night when the wind chill was 23 degrees. Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff Opening Day for the Sox was sunny and T-shirt weather. Then four nights later, the wind chill was 23 degrees. Every Sox player wore a ski mask. How do you hit an inside 93 miles per hour fastball when it feels like Siberia? 'I hit a foul ball the other day, and it hurt for two pitches. I tried to call time for one of them to regain the feeling in my fingers, but it hurt,' said first baseman Triston Casas, a native Floridian. 'It's something you got to work around, but both teams are going through it.' Advertisement My best memory of Opening Day is Carl Yastrzemski, lounging in the bowels of Fenway on April 4 with his pennant-winning 1975 teammates who were being honored before the game. When the greatest living Red Sox finds out he had been tapped to throw out the ceremonial first pitch, he gets serious. 'Get me a ball and a glove,' he orders. Yaz, who played more baseball games than anybody in the American League, always worked harder than anybody else. Under the left-field grandstand between tractors and grounds crew carts and tarps, Yaz guesstimates the distance from the lip of the mound to home plate. At 85, he still tosses a half dozen pitches on target. Then he relaxes in a folding chair, laughing with Carlton Fisk near the open Yaz door, next to the Green Monster. A Winter Place alleyway gets a fresh coat of Red Sox/Fenway colors downtown. Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff Ten minutes later, he throws the first pitch to Sox manager Alex Cora (who respectfully plays him too shallow). He hugs his mates and strips off his uniform top in the parking lot, signing it for fellow Hall of Famer Jim Rice. Then he gets into an air-conditioned SUV with his wife, Nancy, whisking past the bronze statue of himself tipping his cap. In North Quincy, another amazing octogenarian is Lee, a master of recycling and bicycling. (Not the Spaceman Bill Lee ). The North Quincy resident speaks Chinese and has a high-pitched laugh. Like the Marvel superhero Groot, he repeats the same line over and over. 'I am 80,' he said. He's got his pink bicycle precariously overloaded with trash bags laden with recycled bottles and cans. Lee is straining hard on the pedals on his oh-so-slow four-mile journey to Brook Atlantic Bottles & Cans, where he gets a nickel a can. He makes about $60, says the manager, who declined to give her name. Advertisement 'You collect cans on the street. It's not easy. These people work very hard,' she said. Lee, 80, pedals toward Brook Atlantic Bottles & Cans, with his recycling bounty of bottles and cans, which he redeems for a nickel a piece. Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff Also working hard were the organizers of the Hands Off! National Day of Action to protest the actions of the Trump administration and Elon Musk. There were more than 1,400 protests nationwide on April 5. Organizers said more than five million people attended. In Boston, it was a spirited and multigenerational march, from Boston Common to City Hall Plaza. Tens of thousands of people took part. Dog tags at the Iraq-Afghanistan Memorial in the Old North Memorial Garden in Boston on the Freedom Trail. Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff Along the route, the mood was somber, with a sense of urgency and a nod to Boston as the cradle of liberty. Police said there were no arrests. For many, hope was in the air. Peter Counsell, 73, a soccer coach/painter who attended Woodstock and marched in Washington, D.C., against the Vietnam War, said it was a cathartic experience. 'I felt uplifted. We're finally doing something to fight back,' he said. 'Doing nothing is not an option. Demonstrators marching along Tremont Street from the Boston Common to City Hall in a 'Hands Off," anti-Trump/Musk rally have plenty of messages for those that voted for the president. 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Boston Globe
07-04-2025
- Sport
- Boston Globe
Screaming for the Banshees and professional women's rugby
Cheta Emba, who played for the US women's sevens team in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, listens to music as a trainer stretches her out before the match. Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff The Boston Banshees logo is of a screaming woman, whose shriek signals impending doom. They even have a quote from 'The Crucible,' the classic Arthur Miller play about the hysteria and fear of the Salem Witch Trial on their uniforms. In their first-ever game, they beat New York on the road in the last minute. Advertisement Mess with them at your own risk. To those that say rugby is a man's game, Q Okine, a Banshee prop who played for Harvard and Beantown RFC, just laughs. Mikey Williams of the Twin Cities Gemini prepares herself for the match in the locker room under the Veterans Memorial Stadium stands. Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff 'I think a lot of the time people get scared when women are out here doing badass things. I would tell them to come watch a game, see if you could do it for yourself before you're going to talk (expletive).' There are six teams in the new Women's Elite Rugby league: Boston, Chicago, Denver, New York, Minneapolis, and San Francisco. The players come from all walks of life. There are Olympians and super mom's competing on the pitch. Banshee Jenny Kronish, lifted into the air by teammates, wins a lineup against Gemini Emerson Allen. Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff 'Everything from students to teachers to biotech to physical therapists to nurses, all those things,' says Coach Kittery Ruiz, who played on the USA Women's National Team and was an assistant coach at Brown. Advertisement Besides game day, they practice four times a week. Most also work full-time jobs. Ruiz is excited about the growth in women's rugby. She says the momentum stems in part from the Paris Olympics where the USA women won a their first-ever medal (bronze). USA Olympian medalist Ilona Maher has 4.9 million Instagram followers. There are now 2.7 million participants worldwide according to World Rugby, up 28 percent since 2017. Banshees Yeja Dunn fends off Emily Mack in first half action. Dunn scored the first try in a 36-10 Banshee victory. Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff Coach Ruiz draws a salary, and the players in the WER get expenses paid, uniforms, travel meals, and rugby-related medical coverage and other perks. That is a lot better than it used to be, the coach and players say. 'I came through the system as a player and had to pay to play. It feels amazing to be a part of something that just allows athletes to just play rugby,' says Ruiz. All league games are livestreamed by DAZN, an online sports platform, for free. Banshees captain Paige Stathopoulos played for Boston University and USA Rugby. She is a construction project manager. Boston Banshee Q Okine makes sure her braids don't get in the way during the match. Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff She says the inaugural match in Mt. Vernon, N.Y., was exciting. There was none of the intense New York-Boston smack talk from the fans during their first game. There was no heckling. No wiseguys asking for dates because she's listed as 'hooker' on the roster. ''No, no. Everyone knows what a hooker is in rugby, luckily,' she says with a laugh. The Banshees beat the Exiles in the last minute. Gemini Emerson Allen tries not to get stepped on during action under the scrum against the Boston Banshees. Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff 'It was nerve-wracking a little bit to be in front of all the cameras,' she says. 'But the crowd was amazing … so it was a welcoming environment.' Advertisement She says there is little difference between their games and the men's game. Both wear minimal protective padding and only a few wear headgear. Concussion is the greatest risk of injury. 'Nobody wants to hurt each other, but it's a physical game,' she says. A gleeful fan cheers on at the first home game for the Boston Banshees at Veterans Memorial Stadium. Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff 'I think the contact component of it is something that not a lot of women get to experience in any sport. The fact that we have the same rules as the men is really important,' she says. But it takes a special breed to play. 'I think there's a lot of people that played different sports growing up that were too competitive or a little bit too physical. And I think a lot of those people come and they find rugby, and it's where they really fit in.' Banshee Caitlin Weigel battles a host of Gemini defenders looking to tackle her or strip the ball. Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff The team will split their remaining home games between Quincy and The Stadium at Tidewater Landing in Pawtucket, R.I. Up in the stands, Greg Evans, a season ticket holder, is pounding his homemade drum for the Banshees. 'I would have paid 10 times as much,' says Evans, a Quincy teacher. 'The atmosphere, all the fans, the players. The product is incredible, they never give up. This is what we've been waiting for, a real women's professional team.' Gemini Ciara Clawson avoids a teammate and a face plant as she touches down against the Boston Banshees on a soggy pitch. Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff After the game, and the heartfelt hugs between the teams, the players run to the stands and applaud the fans. Banshee fly-half Abbey Savin is mobbed by old friends from Dartmouth College, where she starred. Money, or lack of it, is not on her mind. Greg Owens, a Banshee season ticket holder, pounds the drums for the Banshees. Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff 'We're paving the way for the next generation; I think the last thing on our minds is remuneration,' she says. 'We're doing what we love.' She says the vocal fans who pack the center section helped inspire the team to a 36-10 victory. Advertisement 'I do think there's extra buzz around coming out to support women. Oh, my gosh. It's so exciting. We knew that Boston fans would be like no other.' Banshee Abbey Savin clip clops on the metal bench to greet her fans after a 36-10 win. 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Boston Globe
04-04-2025
- Sport
- Boston Globe
Photos: Opening Day at Fenway Park
Boston Red Sox first baseman Triston Casas (center) fields pregame grounders Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff Red Sox players warm up before the game. John Tlumacki/Globe Staff Fans in the right field stands lean over to grab a line drive hit by the St. Louis Cardinals during batting practice. John Tlumacki/Globe Staff Corey Buchan, of Hooksett, N.H. looks out over Fenway Park from the right field stands. John Tlumacki/Globe Staff Vendors hold a cutout at a souvenir stand on Landsdowne Street. Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff Fans arrive on Lansdowne Street prior to Opening Day. Erin Clark/Globe Staff Vendors wait to serve sausages on Lansdowne Street outside Fenway Park. Erin Clark/Globe Staff Ten year-old twins Tyler and Taylor Gonick, from Nutley, N.J., wait at the front of the line to enter Fenway Park. Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff Red Sox players take batting practice prior to the game. John Tlumacki/Globe Staff
