If the birds offer any clue, this is a very, very busy time of year. Every seed tumbling from shriveled flower heads must be pecked up (or in the case of sunflowers, directly helped from their tight ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Back for its 11th season, the Staten Island Fig Fest will be an outdoor festival. It returns to the National Lighthouse Museum in St. George on Sunday, Sept. 19 from 2 p.m. to 6 ...

Held Sunday, the annual community gathering drew hundreds of participants who celebrated the holiday season under the historic Moreton Bay Fig Tree planted by Santa Monica's founder in the late 1800s.