Best New England Maple Festivals & Events
Love pure maple syrup? Our guide to the Best New England Maple Festivals and Events is sure to add some sweetness to your early spring.
Eileen Terrill
30 Days of Wonder | Autumn Along the Connecticut River
From source to sea, autumn along the Connecticut River is a four-part, month-long ride through the very heart of New England.
Down to the Sea | From Our Archives
Martha Hale Harvey documented the landscapes and people of turn-of-the-century Cape Ann. Among Martha Hale Harvey’s hundreds of photos of Cape Ann life is this portrait of her husband, George Wainwright Harvey (1855–1930), an oil and watercolor artist renowned for his landscape and maritime scenes. Born in Gloucester in 1862, Martha Hale Rogers married her […]
Holiday Traditions | Wassail Recipe
A warm and spicy Christmas Wassail Bowl recipe from Ireland is the perfect way to warm up your holiday menu.
The World at Your Fingertips | Old Number Six Book Depot
Atop a forested New Hampshire hillside, up past an ancient snow-covered burial ground and a 19th-century railroad station, a big green spruce graces the front yard of an old white-clapboard farmhouse. Inside the attached two-story barn, a first-class education awaits. A labyrinth […]
History | Freeman Family Letters from 1829–1852
At the end of a dirt path winding gently south from the Old Sturbridge Village green, a worn yet tidy farmhouse sits humbly upon the land. For some 23 years of its long life, it belonged to one Pliny Freeman Sr., who settled here with his wife, Delia, and their two youngest children in 1828. […]
‘Write Often, Write When You Think Best’
At the end of a dirt path winding gently south from the Old Sturbridge Village green, a worn yet tidy farmhouse sits humbly upon the land. For some 23 years of its long life, it belonged to one Pliny Freeman Sr., who […]
On Common Ground | Old Sturbridge Village
The enduring spirit of the people who came before us lives on in the interpreters of Old Sturbridge Village.