Water is at the heart of Wickford, Rhode Island, where you’ll shop to the tune of gulls, take your morning coffee within sight of swans, and find the harbor a constant companion.
Rhode Island
Annie Graves
A legendary family created two magnificent spaces in Shelburne, Vermont, that locals consider the best backyards in the country.
Robert Frost’s final resting place lies in Bennington, Vermont, a small town that loves artists.
Along the Kennebec River lies Hallowell, Maine, a town where the cafés, the people, and the music create what locals call their “New Orleans of the North.”
Massachusetts
Greenfield, Massachusetts | Could You Live Here?
At the start of the Mohawk Trail sits Greenfield, Massachusetts, a scrappy combination of old-time New England and forward thinking, the first designated “green community” in the state.
Connecticut
Essex, Connecticut | Could You Live Here?
With a bucolic setting on the Connecticut River and steeped in history and tradition, Essex, Connecticut, was once named the best small town in America.
Magazine
Looking Back on Our Town
Eighty years after Thornton Wilder wrote Our Town, the classic play still lives in the small town of Peterborough, New Hampshire.
Massachusetts
Northampton, Massachusetts | Could You Live Here?
When temperatures dip into the single digits, the college town of Northampton, Massachusetts, turns up the heat.
Ocean life meets clay in the work of potter Tessa Morgan, owner of Flying Pig Pottery in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
Less than 20 miles apart, two very different houses in New Hampshire keenly reflect the wildly divergent artistic sensibilities of their creators.
Connecticut
Mystic, Connecticut | Could You Live Here?
Could you live in Mystic, Connecticut? The waters run deep in this lively seaport that celebrates maritime history and ocean beauty.
Rhode Island jewelry artist Carolyn Morris Bach transforms an overgrown 18th-century Cape into a polished work-and-living space.