I have a complicated relationship with the month of August. Maybe, quite possibly, it’s my favorite time of year. The weather is tailor-made for jumping into a cool lake or even our famously cold Atlantic. Backyard gardens burst with the products of labor undertaken many months before. And yet … August brings us just a […]
Make the most of your visit to Maine’s biggest city with these fun annual Portland, Maine, events.
Heading to the postcard-perfect beach town of Narragansett? Make the most of your stay at one of our top picks for Narragansett, RI, hotels and B&Bs.
A few summers ago, I spent part of a week near Provincetown, Massachusetts, for a Yankee story on the Cape Cod National Seashore. It was midweek, and the crowds that often define the Provincetown summer experience had thinned out. We strolled downtown, ate well, and enjoyed a little beach time. That was the first extended […]
There’s no shortage of great places to stay at one of New England’s premier summer destinations. Here are our favorite Newport, Rhode Island, hotels.
In the Nantucket practice of Tim Lepore, medicine and caring are dispensed in equal doses.
My father is a car guy. When I was a kid, a parade of vehicles entered and exited the scene. There were periods when I wasn’t even sure how many cars my dad owned (was it five or 15?), and I’m not positive that my pop, who rented several different storage units, did either. His […]
For the Red Sox superfan, there’s no better place to spend a night than in the Hotel Commonwealth’s legendary Red Sox suite, located right across from Fenway Park.
How a developer of Nantucket seaside estates made sure everyone could enjoy the view.
Every morning on Plum Island yields an unforgettable image to share.
More than 70 years ago Pauline Niskanen had the most popular mailing address in town.
This past October I tagged along on a foliage bus trip around New England with Tauck Tours for a story that will appear in our September issue. We hit some of the big stops around the region: Fenway Park, the Mark Twain House, the town green in Lexington, Massachusetts, the Vermont Country Store. We also […]
