Tag: Massachusetts

  • Yankee Candle Founder’s Estate: “like having Disneyland in the backyard”

    Yankee Candle Founder’s Estate: “like having Disneyland in the backyard”

    Michael Kittredge started making candles as a teenager and selling them to friends and family. One of his first products was a Christmas candle he made for his mother on the family stove out of his melted crayons and a wick from a shoelace. Within a few years, he had opened his first Yankee Candle…

  • Important Thoughts On Altruism

    Important Thoughts On Altruism

    Humans possess a great depth of capacity when it comes to altruism. Again and again, we demonstrate our tendency to reach out when others are in distress. Cultivating these instincts is one of the ways in which we connect with our own humanity. Studies have indicated that altruism is not entirely innate. Environment plays a…