Miles Howard
Writer and Journalist at Freelance
Founder and Editor at Mind the Moss
Outdoor author + urban trail creator @NatGeo @BostonGlobe @WBUR @NewRepublic @BostonMagazine | he/him | I founded the Walking City Trail of Boston | Views: Mine
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1 month ago |
bluedotliving.com | Miles Howard
One of my more specific memories of growing up in the Nineties is watching a lot of music videos in which the lead singer is skulking around on an empty beach. I’m not sure how or why this became a video motif, but an empty beach—especially in winter—is such an effortlessly atmospheric and moody place that I can understand why the directors decided to shoot all of these bands on the sand.
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2 months ago |
afar.com | Miles Howard
Spring brings unique events, like the Cushing Crossing at Palisades TahoePhoto courtesy of Palisades Tahoe Ski towns, high in the mountains on both coasts of the United States, usually reach their most bustling incarnation between January and March. Once the snowmelt begins and flecks of greenery emerge from the powder, many skiers assume the party’s over.
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2 months ago |
bostonglobe.com | Miles Howard
Last year, I waited in the Forest Hills MBTA station on a chap-your-knuckles January night to see if anyone would respond to an unusual invitation: to trek to the top of the Arnold Arboretum’s Peters Hill, freshly coated with snow. It was 6 p.m. on a Thursday — I wasn’t sure if anyone would be crazy enough to show up. The lonesome window of January through March is a hard time to be a Bostonian. The grueling weather and limited nightlife cause many people to hibernate for a quarter of the year.
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2 months ago |
bostonglobe.com | Miles Howard
In the winter of 2020, a few weeks before COVID-19 had most of us sheltering in our homes, I boarded a plane to Vienna to report a story about something that seemed too good to be true: an effective (and popular) public housing system. Over the past few decades, Boston and other major U.S. cities have struggled with astronomic real estate prices and budget-breaking rent hikes, both of which have created real hardship for those trying to live in these urban centers.
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Jan 18, 2025 |
mindthemoss.com | Miles Howard
You’re not the only person who exclaimed, “Are you fucking kidding me,” upon learning that Donald Trump’s second inauguration would happen on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. After a long year of bad news, as corporate greed and ethnonationalism joined forces to torpedo liberal governments across the west, this was too much.
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The surveying hikes for Boston’s next cross-city trail have been completed! Now it’s time to get this thing ready for its Earth Day launch. https://t.co/iyHLFrNnUF
Boston; I can't wait for you all to see the new park-to-park trail we've been working on for the last several months. The Earth Day launch can't come soon enough.
RT @MilesPerHoward: Now here's a story I've been looking forward to publishing for awhile. I wrote about one of the leading chroniclers of…