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At Home with John Linehan:

John Linehan, president and chief executive officer of Zoo New England, runs the Franklin Park and Stone zoos, but it’s his wife, Julie, who presides over the Linehan zoo. No lions, tigers, or bears, but the couple and their four children — Jack, 14, Shannon, 12, Kevin, 10, and Kelly, 7 — live in a […]

At Home with Loretta LaRoche:

It is symbolic that Studley the cat is the first thing a visitor encounters at the front door of Loretta LaRoche’s contemporary home, because he represents so much about LaRoche, an international stress-management consultant who lectures using humor. She recently rescued Studley, “a big, bad male cat,” after her 23-year marriage ended. “Hey, I’ve got […]

At Home with Nancy Kerrigan:

Two-time Olympic figure-skating medalist Nancy Kerrigan recently created a “backstage dressing room” for her son in his basement playroom. She stocked it with hats and props, and she hung chiffon drapes as a doorway to a make-believe “stage.” Matthew, 5, loves to play there but registers one complaint: Can’t they do anything about the pole […]

At Home with Jon Keller:

For A Serious Journalist, A Sense Of Humor Is Key: It comes as no surprise that Jon Keller, political analyst and satirist for “The News at Ten” on WLVI-TV 56, was class clown while growing up in Cambridge. He was also a voracious newspaper reader who discussed politics around the dinner table with his parents. […]

At Home with Jack Hynes:

After television newsman Jack Hynes’s wife of 41 years died in 1998, his colleagues at WLVI-TV (Channel 56), where he had anchored the weekday and later the weekend news for 15 years, expected him to relocate from the Chatham townhouse he had shared with Marie to a place in Boston, with its busier lifestyle than […]

At Home with Helen Greiner:

Helen Greiner can build you a robot, but don’t ask her to cook you dinner. The cofounder and chairwoman of iRobot Corp. of Burlington, which makes the Roomba vacuum cleaner and other robotic devices, makes only tea and coffee in her kitchen, beautifully appointed with Corian and chrome design and modern appliances. The two meals […]

At Home with Arthur Golden:

Standing inside Arthur Golden’s Victorian house, it’s easy to assume he purchased this striking, teal-colored Brookline home, with its stained-glass windows and stately oak stairway, wainscoting, and trim, after the enormous success of his 1997 novel “Memoirs of a Geisha.” To the contrary, however: The 44-year-old Golden and his wife, Trudy, bought it 17 years […]

At Home with Ken Gloss:

Eclectic furnishings, from antique to tacky, turn drab to fab The Newton Centre home of Ken Gloss and Joyce Kosofsky offers a delight in every corner, not unlike a visit to the Brattle Book Shop in Boston, which Gloss and his family have owned since 1949. But while the store’s delights are solely in the […]

At Home with Mike and Kitty Dukakis:

Inside the modest, nine-room, brick-and-slate, Philadelphia- style duplex residence of Mike and Kitty Dukakis, it takes some time before clues surface that this is the home of the daughter of late Boston Pops icon Harry Ellis Dickson and a former Massachusetts governor who was the 1988 Democratic nominee for president. Far more noticeable are the […]

At Home with Alan Dershowitz:

“Don’t I know you from somewhere?” This hardly sounds like a pickup line to which Alan Dershowitz, renowned defense attorney, Harvard Law professor, and author of 20 books, would resort. Yet 20 years ago, while addressing single adults at a Combined Jewish Philanthropy brunch, he spotted a woman he swore he knew. Lucky for him, […]