A TALL TALE ON A MAINE ISLAND, THEY STILL TALK ABOUT TALL BARNEY BEAL, A 19TH-CENTURY STRONGMAN WITH A PENCHANT FOR HEAVY-LIFTING. THAT LEGENDARY PHYSICAL PROWESS HAS SURVIVED TO A NEW GENERATION OF ATHLETIC BEALS.Ellen Barry, Globe staff...
On Friday, I was given a lift to Barry Norman’s funeral in the Hertfordshire village where he lived for many years. We drove north from the Radio Times office in Hammersmith, West London, and although I wasn’t looking for it, I saw the corpse of Grenfell Tower for the first time. ...