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Come see Mark Scalia, Alex Giampapa and Jim Ruberti

This week's highlights include concerts, a songwriting competition, the Against the Tide athletic fundraiser and presentations on maps and on writing.

An audience on the lawn of the Koussevitsky Music Shed at Tanglewood in 2018. (Courtesy Fred Collins) Classical-music devotees who’ve been missing the sound of live music and the camaraderie of intermissions can begin to breathe a sigh of relief as the pandemic, at least around these parts, begins to wind down. The Boston Symphony Orchestra has just announced that Symphony Hall will reopen Sept. 30 with celebrity violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter playing the new John Williams Violin Concerto No. 2 (if you can’t wait, you can attend the world premiere at Tanglewood, July 24). This summer, many ...

Registering History: When Cape's Fires Raged Robert Leaversuch Forest fires have always posed a threat to life on Cape Cod and still do. The danger is rooted in our natural environment, but by the late 19th century it was greatly exacerbated by more invasive human practices.  Indigenous, colonial and modern inhabitants in turn have adopted fire as a weapon for clearing our once-prolific vegetation to help them hunt, cultivate, harvest wood and shortcut travel. By around 1880, some two-thirds of the original landscape, including much of the woodlands, had been displaced by farms, fields, set...

About the treatment of the Native Americans by first the English and then by the US government, Dee Brown, author of “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,” says, “They made many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.” After having his people moved five times in the late 1800s, one Sioux chief said cynically, “I think you had better put the Indians on wheels and you can run them about whenever you wish.” In 2006, the office of the Assistant Secretary–Indian Affairs issued a Proposed Finding...