WESTWOOD In a way, the final play of Saturday’s Div. 4 state semifinal football game at Xaverian Brothers between Tewksbury and Duxbury was symbolic. Sophomore Ben Christopher was tackled at the 2-yard line after a 28-yard reception. The play wouldn’t have changed the outcome, the Dragons won by a 19-7 score, but the afternoon […]
Along with his 30-yard touchdown grab to give the No. 4 Redmen (7-3) the lead in the fourth quarter, Cam Kearney recovered a No. 12 Burlington (6-4) fumble with seconds left on the clock to send Tewksbury to the Division 4 Final Four in a thrilling 28-21 victory.
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(Black Swan, £8.99) In 1871 Massachusetts, utopianist Samuel Hood sets up the School for the Trilling Heart, a progressive institution intended to produce educated, independently-minded women. His daughter, Caroline, is one of the school’s two teachers, and she lives in fear that she will manifest signs of the disease that killed her mother, fear heightened by the appearance of red birds previously seen at her mother’s death. Almost immediately, Hood’s ideals are compromised when the reality of free-thinking girls collides with his paternalistic vision. The pupils start to come down with a mysterious ailment, which his doctor friend diagnoses as hysteria and treats with methods which nowadays will be seen as shockingly invasive. Beams’s highly readable but unsettling debut novel has a 19th-century elegance and Gothic tone attuned perfectly to its themes of shadows from the past, omens, men’s control over women’s bodies and the hint of a malign force just beyond our