While a war against cargos has been waged with the pocketed shorts deemed a baggy and bitter enemy of fashion, much more flattering military-inspired clothing has found its way to the runways and store racks this fall. 

Is there anything better than staying in and eating a plateful of warm, hearty “comfort” food on a crisp fall night (other than finding out that everything on the plate is calorie-free)? How about not having to cook the meal yourself? Now, that’s our favorite kind of dinner!

By STACEY MARCUS

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
— Henry David Thoreau

Dan Small sits on a picnic table in Lynn Woods and shares the history of the 2,200-acre park that encompasses one-fifth of the city of Lynn as well as areas in Saugus and Lynnfield.