These Boston-area markets, streets, and stores are chock-full of treasures.

Antiquer’s tool kit: These items come in handy on shopping days.

Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays emerged on the New York baseball scene in 1951, and had their heydays as the game’s best centerfielders well into the 1960s. If theirs was the sport’s Golden Age, it is largely because these two were its most transcendent figures. They are also, as author Allen Barra notes, perhaps the two most written about players in baseball history. What is new about “Mickey and Willie” then is its effort “to try to trace their remarkably parallel lives” in an attempt to show “how much they had in common and how each man’s image reflected the other.”

Where to buy, sell, and learn about antiques and old objects and to find local sales.

As shrines to public tragedies proliferate, they force the difficult question of what’s important to preserve.

Charles Tilton had cash. Lots of it. His Gold Rush fortune paid for bridges, a new Town Hall, and public statuary throughout the hamlet named in his family’s honor. So when the wealthy benefactor wanted a memento of his trip to Rome in 1881, a mere postcard or souvenir ashtray wasn’t going to cut it. Instead, Tilton built a colossal memorial arch atop a 150-foot-high peak in close eyeshot of his grand mansion. Inspired by the Arch of Titus, the Concord granite monument overlooking downtown Tilton soars more than five stories high. Tilton dedicated the structure to his ancestors and hoped that, in contrast to its Roman counterpart, his arch would commemorate peace, not war.

Spain’s Paradores de Turismo has recycled some of the country’s most historic buildings into unforgettable lodgings.

Recipe for Tom Collins

My mom was only 15 when Carole King’s landmark record, “Tapestry,” was released in early 1971, but she listened to it on a loop in college after hearing “It’s Too Late” on the radio.

Up until then my mother’s taste in music leaned toward the Beatles and Three Dog Night’s “Joy to the World.” King’s music was different — written for everyone, but from a woman’s perspective.

“Her songs had meaning,” my mother told me recently, before she launched into the first line of “Will You Love Me Tomorrow.” “Tapestry” became something of a soundtrack to my childhood, the one album my mother kept on cassette and transferred to every new car she got. King will be at TD Garden on May 30 for the Boston Strong benefit.

WASHINGTON — An iPhone application that lets users check levels of blood, protein, and other substances in their urine is the first target of US regulators seeking boundaries in a burgeoning industry for medical diagnosis on-the-go.

Biosense Technologies Private Ltd.’s uChek system isn’t cleared by the Food and Drug Administration and the agency said it wants to know why not, in a first-of-its-kind letter to a maker of a mobile-device application. The app relies on users, such as diabetics checking their glucose, to dip test strips in urine and use the smartphone’s camera to allow the system to process and generate automated results.

Don Mattingly may lose his job as manager of the Dodgers, but he gained respect around baseball for saying you just can’t “throw an All-Star team out there” and expect to win.

Everybody’s getting ready for summer.

Prohibition is long gone, but the concept of the once necessary “speakeasies,” or hidden bars and lounges, have transformed into lively nightlife hot spots.

John Lackey treated the Indians to a platter of fastballs, cutters, and curveballs over seven innings in the Sox’ 8-1 win, ringing up eight strikeouts for the third time this season.

President Xi Jinping told a North Korean envoy that his country should return to talks designed to rid North Korea of its nuclear weapons, according to a state-run Chinese news agency.