Arts & Culture

As it celebrates its 75th anniversary, Robert McCloskey’s Caldecott Award-winning book Make Way for Ducklings continues to be a favorite bedtime story around the world. In Boston, where the charming tale of a mother duck’s efforts to escort her ducklings to their new home is set, lovers of the story gather each year on Mother’s Day and on nearly every other day to visit the set of sculptures of Mrs. Mallard and her...

“If you say you drive, nobody compares you to a Nascar racer. If you say you can cook, nobody expects you to be a chef. But if you say you’re a singer, you’d better be a professional,” says Kelly Armor, a northwestern Pennsylvania folklorist and musician. “Our culture believes that true singers are a chosen and blessed few.”

Kelly’s engineer father and computer programmer mother encouraged her early interest in music. Her father...