Our second-ever mini issue, back when we hand-printed all the covers.

It is spring in the watershed! Season of whirligigs and bleeding hearts, of old dormant things worming their way to the surface, of winter’s shedding shadow and the promise of warmer days. Thousands of silvery herring splashing up the ladder at the Watertown Dam, marathoners pound down Boylston Street, and the T jingles across a web of thawing tracks. An overpass, rumbling low over the forest, already casts a long green shadow on a patch of nettles. The tulips pop in Boston Common, and long held dreams take shape on street corners, emerging stone by stone and brick by brick. Let us take you for a walk!