New England

This Issue: August 2018 | Dog Days

August is a bittersweet month for me. It’s a favorite time of year, and yet it’s also a swan song to summer. That by no means is to diminish what comes next — autumn and all those amazing colors — but the New Englander in me can’t help but think about what follows after that. […]

New England

This Issue June 2018 | Sure Shots

I picked up my first real camera in college in the mid-1990s. It was a Pentax K1000. It shot film, of course, and it was rock solid. Just metal and glass. I could have pounded nails with it. I shot the heck out of that thing, and when I used it up, I moved on […]

Homes

Federal House in Middletown, CT | Home Again

Let’s go back to those early years. Before the big house came down, nail by nail, board by board, beam by beam. Before all those truckloads of old timber rumbled through the quiet center of Middletown, Connecticut. Before the tree clearing and the dirt moving. Before the curious onlookers came to see what all the […]

New Hampshire

Hampton Beach, NH | Hotels, Inns & More

Hampton Beach is a nostalgic favorite along the Seacoast, with its popular music venue, little shops, and eateries. Enjoy all it has to offer at these great Hampton Beach, NH, hotels and inns.

Maine

Season Opener | First Light

The Chebeague Island Inn gets spruced up after a long winter. Its namesake island is the largest of a scattering of more than 100 small islands that populate Maine’s Casco Bay.

Food

This Issue | Local Flavors

A couple of years ago, I was on assignment in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. The focus of my visit was the hilly hamlet of Greensboro, which is small even by northern New England’s standards. But oh, what a place for lingering. I meandered up and down the aisles of Willey’s, an everything-under-the-sun kind of store that […]

New England

This Issue | Rays of Hope

As I write this, a snowstorm has enveloped Yankee’s Dublin, New Hampshire, offices, while a deep freeze that began the week before (or the decade before, seems like) is poised to continue with a spate of the year’s coldest temperatures so far. Yep, winter has set in—and it doesn’t feel as though it’s ever going […]

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