After a week of heavy news, here is the South Shore at its most restful: a police warning about cows. Universal Hub's headline earns its pun, and the story is exactly as small and pleasant as it sounds.

Two centuries in one family, on one of the most New England crops there is, and in November the bogs are still doing their thing. Boston.com points out you can tour it with the Halls themselves. It is a rare travel piece where the guides predate the Civil War, at least genealogically.