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Annmarie Campbell lived in Tennessee, but she grew up in central Florida, and she had vacationed before in the rustic two-bedroom cabin on a creek in Florida's Ocala National Forest. Two weeks ago, she was there again with a few members of her extended family. That Sunday the aspiring artist, 23, slipped into the water to snorkel her way back to the cabin. A few minutes later, her former stepfather's wife Jackie Barrett left the sandbar where they had been sunning themselves and followed Campbell. The young woman was nowhere to be found. Barrett grabbed a kayak...
...only is MOBA free, it is also easily accessible: take the Orange Line out to Forest Hills, hop on the Dedham Mall bus to the end of the line, and MOBA is just a five minute walk away. For more info, check out www.museumofbadart.org...
Forty years ago, when the city examined the possibility of building a public high school across from Forest Hills Station and adjacent to the Arboretum, it was Harvard that objected, saying that any such institutional development at its doorstep would encroach on open space at the Arboretum next door...
Would you be interested in an ecologically sound pastime that's mostly free of charge, adventurous and helps you lose kilos in the process? Then get your boots on. Hiking may smack of church camps or high school geography clubs, but vistas like that of Canada's Kootenay Lake Forest, pictured, can be just the thing for restoring the jaded traveler's sense of wonder. Here are four other sensational hiking destinations...
...SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA: The view of the Pacific Ocean from the 1,500-m Point Lookout platform is just one of the joys awaiting hikers in New England National Park (nationalparks.nsw.gov.au)?an ecological wonderland of soaring cliffs and World Heritage rain forest. If time is limited, the 2.5-km Eagle's Nest circuit, along the edge of a sheer drop, offers adrenaline in a jiffy...