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Sophie Herron

Assistant Arts Editor

Sophie Herron is an assistant arts editor and news staff writer for the Daily. She is a sophomore studying international relations and French and can be reached at sophia.herron@tufts.edu.

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Arts

Sherlock Holmes wishes you a Merry Christmas

By Sophie Herron | December 3

“Moriarty is dead, to begin with.” And after spending three years without his nemesis, master detective Sherlock Holmes is bored and depressed. No case in London tempts him, and he is estranged from his now-married friend Dr. John Watson, even refusing to come to his house for Christmas. Worse, he imagines that he sees Moriarty’s ghost around London. Gloomy, grouchy and very much not in the Christmas spirit, Holmes mopes alone on Christmas Eve — until a doctor asks him to investigate a mysterious death.

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Local

Medford to launch the second round of Project: Pop-Up Medford

By Sophie Herron | November 24

The second round of Project: Pop-Up Medford will transform 348 Boston Ave. into a shared retail space for three small businesses from November 2025 to January 2026. The project — a collaboration between the City of Medford, Tufts University and retail incubator consulting firm UpNext — provides microenterprises with the opportunity to promote their work, try new business models and learn how to operate a retail storefront.

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Arts

An everyday art tour: The art of keeping time

By Sophie Herron | November 24

Clockmaking runs in the family of Richard Hills, an antique horologist and owner of Hills Antique Clocks in Holliston. Throughout high school and college, he worked in his brother’s repair shop in Wellesley and, after graduating, continued clockmaking on the side while working as a bioanalytical chemist.

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Columns

An everyday art tour: A living collection

By Sophie Herron | October 29

The Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University spans 281 acres with a collection of more than 16,000 plants. Rodney Eason, director of horticulture and landscape at the arboretum, can recognize these plants by sight and tell their stories by heart.

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Arts

An everyday art tour: The slowest performing art

By Sophie Herron | October 15

“Every day is awesome” for Rodney Eason, director of horticulture and landscape at the Arnold Arboretum. Purchased by Harvard in 1872, the land was converted into a park by the father of American landscape architecture, Frederick Law Olmsted, and the founding director of the Arboretum, Charles Sprague Sargent. Today, the Arboretum is a living museum, a research institution and one of the nine public parks that form Boston’s Emerald Necklace. 

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Columns

An Everyday Art Tour: Monument to progress

By Sophie Herron | October 1

Joseph Strauss, chief engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge, said: “Bridges are a monument to progress.” Such is the case of the recently completed William Fenton ‘Bill’ Russell Bridge, named after the Celtics player and civil rights activist, which honors Boston’s past changemakers while innovating for its future. The bridge was designed by Miguel Rosales, a Boston-based architect and president of the architecture firm Rosales+ Partners. Rosales has designed some of the most well-known bridges in the country, including the Zakim and Charlestown Bridges in Boston, the Woodrow Wilson Bridge in DC and the Puente Centenario Bridge across the Panama Canal. Born to a middle-class family in Guatemala, Rosales earned an architecture degree from University Francisco Marroquín before continuing his studies at MIT, earning a Masters of Science in Architecture Studies. Rosales credits his education in architecture, urban planning and engineering for his unique designs saying, “I think I combined all of those disciplines into one person, and I think that makes me special and be able to do the work I do.”

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Arts

‘It’s about us’ — art, messaging at ‘Hands Off!’ Boston

By Sophie Herron | April 14

At the“Hands Off!” protest in Boston on April 5, Chantal Zakari, SMFA professor of the practice,was among the crowd.In 2020, Zakari taught a course called “Subversive Graphics: Socially Engaged Art,” which discussed recent artistic protest movements and art methods, including street graphics, books and short-lived print. Using this expertise,she gave her insight on the posters for the “Hands Off!” protest.

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