A Rhode Island college student created a way to build back yard hockey rinks quickly. He's still at Yale, where he's a senior, but his company has sold 550 rinks this winter.
Walter Skold, 57, a former Maine resident, died unexpectedly of a heart attack, about a month after he commissioned Michael Updike of Newbury, Massachusetts, the son of novelist John Updike (1932-2009), to carve a colonial-looking gravestone for him with a dancing skeleton and a quill. Skold advocated a Dead Poets Remembrance Day holiday on the Sunday closest to October 7, the date Edgar Allan Poe died.
