Visit Norman Rockwell‘s studio at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA, and you’ll sense the artist just left the room. The space has been painstakingly recreated to capture Rockwell’s life in Oct. 1960. Read more: Stockbridge, MA: Norman Rockwell Museum, Why We Still Love Rockwell, Rockwell Country: Arlington, VT
A young woman waits with heavy heart at the window, wondering when — or whether — her betrothed will return alive from overseas. It’s one of many iconic stories explored in the Peabody Essex Museum’s exhibit “Wedded Bliss: The Marriage of Art and Ceremony.” On display through September 14, the presentation includes 300 years of […]
Slow down, listen to the waves and smell the sea breeze as you stroll along the Marginal Way in Ogunquit, Maine.
Zipline tours are the new rage in New England ski towns. Alpine Adventures in Lincoln, in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, offers two courses; some jumps feature dual lines, letting riders race each other. Listen to Yankee editor Justin Shatwell describe his adventure on the zipline. Photos by Annie Card.
The long-dead Native language Wopânâak that once greeted the Pilgrims is today again being spoken.
One of the most eclectic museums in New England is found on Massachusetts’ Springfield Quadrangle. Headaches come in all shapes and sizes. If you’re a curator for the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, you’ll know that some even come adorned with Tiffany stained-glass windows. Step inside the opulent Italianate building on the Springfield, Massachusetts, […]
When the elevator door slides open at the top of the Penobscot Narrows Observatory, the view hits you suddenly, startlingly. The glass wall of the tower is disturbingly close, and beyond it, the Penobscot River Valley unfolds 420 feet below. For a split second it feels as though you’ve been deposited directly into the clouds. […]
On a walking tour of Providence, Rhode Island, you’ll encounter famous museums, historic homes, an Ivy League campus, and possibly even ghosts.
At Johnson & Wales’ Culinary Arts Museum in Providence, Rhode Island, visitors feast on food history, curiosities, and some 60,000 cookbooks.
Students at Boston’s North Bennet Street School are devoted to the New England tradition of fine craftsmanship.
Above the din of battle in Lexington and Concord, you may hear the echo of history at these two Patriot’s Day Reenactments in Massachusetts.
No Matter How Bad Your Hair Day, There’s Always Someone Like This … Few things in nature are more intimidating than the greasy, tangled mane of a New Englander after he takes off his ski helmet. In an effort to promote ski safety, Okemo Mountain Resort in Ludlow, Vermont, launched an annual competition three years […]
