Good to Know

Captain Eddie Dellecese, of the fishing vessel Buckeye, won the Fishing Heritage Center’s second annual Scallopalooza contest, shucking 100 scallops in under five minutes

A 98-year-old Korean War veteran in South Windsor is receiving what many are calling long overdue recognition.

The sculptures are part of a touring public art exhibition called The Great Elephant Migration. The herd will stay on Commonwealth Avenue Mall through Sept. 13.

The laboratory at the New England Aquarium in Boston is a breeding site for the mesmerizing animals, which have been in the news this summer for their trademark — and painful — stings.

There are no firm numbers, but there could be a million or more Americans conceived with a donated egg or sperm. Jacqui Comstock is the product of both. She has a lot of genetic relatives — at least 28 half-siblings — not to mention their children, her aunts and uncles, a twin brother, cousins. The list goes on.

St. Andrew’s by-the-Sea Episcopal Church in Rye Beach held its first service in the summer of 1876. The historic chapel was built for $4,000.

A local French teacher brought about a dozen of her counterparts to the St. John River Valley this summer for a weeklong immersion in Acadian language, history and culture.

Organizers say the Suncook Valley Rotary’s annual hot air balloon rally draws over 10,000 people to the area.

“As a little kid, there was no women's professional baseball league," says Beth Greenwood. "So I just dreamed of playing for the Boston Red Sox.”

Author Eric Jay Dolin discusses a 19th-century New Bedford whaling voyage that ended in a shipwreck and a clash of cultures in Palau.