Jenn Johnson

Plunge into a sea of late-summer sunflowers when you “tour” the Sunflower House at Vermont’s Billings Farm & Museum.

At Hubbardton Forge, old-school artistry meets au courant design to create some of the hottest lighting fixtures around.

Vermont artisan Miranda Thomas crafts pottery that holds a world of expression.

As Connecticut’s largest shoreline park, Hammonasset Beach State Park is a place visitors naturally flock to. And what’s attractive to nearly a million sun-worshipping humans annually is just as alluring for birds, especially during peak avian travel season. “Coastal hammocks like Hammonasset are terrific stopover habitat for migrating land birds,” says Patrick Comins, executive director […]

Fifty feet of asphalt is only the most obvious divider between Boston’s famous downtown green spaces, the Common and the Public Garden. Born more than 200 years apart, they also diverge in their expression: one a freewheeling invitation to public life, the other a horticultural oasis rooted in Victorian-era decorum. But in his 22-year career […]

If you were in the market for a printing press toward the end of the 19th century, your eye may have been caught by an ad from the Peerless Printing Press Company in Palmyra, New York. Headlined “That Smooth, Easy-Running ‘Peerless,’” it gets right to the point: Constructed substantially. Built to stand the test. High […]

Catching up with the patriarch of The Vermont Country Store as it celebrates 75 years as “purveyors of the practical and hard-to-find.”

A salute to Cape Cod’s unsinkable Beetle Cat.

When the original Filene’s Basement closed in 2007, Boston lost a quirky shopping experience—and a kind of common ground.

Remembering Rhode Island’s Ellison “Tarzan” Brown, the only Native American to win the Boston Marathon twice.

Remembering Boston’s Great Molasses Flood, a freak accident that still fascinates scientists and storytellers a century later.

Already a college football phenom, Doug Flutie became a star in 1984 with a Hail Mary pass that many New Englanders still talk about.