I have a new favorite Christmas cookie, a sweet little biscuit flavored with lemon and caraway seeds and finished with a lemon glaze. Even better, the recipe takes us way back to the very beginning of American cooking. In fact, it has its roots in the first cookbook ever published here. The First Christmas “Cookey” […]

Before there was a young, hip Portland art scene, there was an older, darker Portland scene. Mr. Rossolowsky belongs to that dim past. I think of Mr. Rossolowsky often and of the debt I owe him. I started thinking of him most recently in the wake of the horrible events in Newtown, Connecticut. I thought of him because Mr. Rossolowsky […]

Here’s an excerpt from Yankee Publishing Inc.’s newest special interest publication, NH Ski & Snow Magazine. It is available for free at sports and outdoor retailers in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, coastal Connecticut, Southern New Hampshire and Maine, and at New Hampshire Welcome Centers. You can also view the electronic version here: Digital NH Ski and […]

Photo taken by Stephen Henrick in Shutter Priority mode with 18mm-55mm lens at 55mm, F-16 aperture, ISO 100.

Holiday scenes captured in glass jars are easy to make and can be placed on tabletops, windowsills, and fireplace mantels to add festive charm to your holiday decor. The possibilities for customizing your own jar to fit the theme of the holiday are as endless as your imagination. Rather than going to a craft store […]

What happens when you bring a quizzical two-year-old to a museum stocked full of exotic marine life? Simple but direct demands like, “Open it.” As in, open the tank and let’s all start playing with the fish and sea lions. On a recent Saturday, as Boston was absorbing a full on crush of holiday shoppers, […]

Cake stands are adorable and useful (especially during Christmas cookie season), but tough to collect. They cay be pricey, especially the vintage ones, and they take up a lot of room in a china cabinet. So I’ve come up with a solution to satisfy my cake stand fetish without overwhelming my budget or storage capacity. […]

For the past dozen or so years, I’ve sung in the choir of our local church. Each Sunday, we lead the congregation in hymns and sing an anthem, something by Brahms or Rutter. With a clock tower, a weathervane, and Ionic columns, the Dublin Community Church is a classic 19th-century New England house of worship, […]

He wonders: How wide do his shoulders need to be? How open his heart? How deep his soul? Can he ever really understand what it’s like to lose a child, even as he looks parents in the eye and lets them fold their grief into his arms? He has been telling me about a time […]

The New England Ski Museum takes you from early man’s first tracks to the treasures of the world’s most daring downhill racer.

Olympic gold medalist Barbara Ann Cochran, an instructor at Cochran’s Ski Area in Vermont, offers advice on how to teach your kid to ski.

Here are Richard F. Wright’s picks for the best used bookshops in New England. Let us know your favorite in the comments at the bottom of the page.  BEST USED BOOKSTORES IN NEW ENGLAND The Montague Bookmill This shop fulfills the true definition of “destination” bookstore. After 25 years, visitors still commit to traveling to […]