Touro Synagogue, the oldest temple in America, is a Newport, Rhode Island treasure.
Justin Shatwell
Yankee
Eilen Jewell | Music Review
Musician Eilen Jewell is a ghost behind the microphone–a thin, blond wisp of a woman with a pair of probing doe eyes and a heart full of wanderlust. “Homesickness is kind of my muse,” she explains coolly. “I like that tension of not being at home and wondering where home is and do I ever […]
It’s exactly what it sounds like, and it’s only on display at this local museum.
Paul Wainwright’s photographs of New England meetinghouses are caretakers of memory and history.
New England
Ziplining Through Color
When you’re afraid of heights, a thin grated walkway pegged 40 feet up a tree is an uncomfortable place to find yourself. It’s even less comfortable when everyone around you expects you to jump off it–but that’s exactly what I signed up for here at Alpine Adventures’ zipline course, on Barron Mountain in the White […]
Massachusetts
New England Quilt Museum in Lowell, MA
On a cobblestone corner in downtown Lowell, Massachusetts, volunteers are decoding the genealogy of the Bay State one quilted panel at a time. Once a month, the Massachusetts Quilt Documentation (MassQuilts) Project invites people from around the Commonwealth to drag their grandmothers’ quilts out of those old steamer trunks. They can bring them by the […]
Anais Mitchell is possibly the most beguiling farmer’s daughter in Vermont. Her father has raised sheep and taught English at Middlebury College since the ’80s, so she was brought up loving both land and letters. As a teen she found her voice in folk music and has since made a career crafting perfect poems that, […]
Yankee
Avi and Celia Music Review
At first glance, these two University of Vermont grads may seem a little young to be a folk roots duo, but then Celia starts smashing out a rhythm on her washboard and it quickly becomes obvious that this is for real. Though only in their early twenties, Avi and Celia have been collaborating for seven […]
Massachusetts
Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA
Normal Rockwell Museum: The artist’s studio in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, reveals details that show the man behind the paintings.
Sally Snowman is the 70th keeper of Boston Light, a post that dates back to 1716. She’s the last of her kind; every other Coast Guard light station in the country has long since reassigned its full-time keepers in the wake of automation. Secluded on Little Brewster Island for weeks at a time, she’s one […]
Eilen Jewell is finally back with her much anticipated third album, Sea of Tears. This Boise-born singer has made a big splash over the last few years bringing her western affinity for open roads and lonely drifters to the Boston folk and country scene. This new record marks a slight departure and a big risk […]
In Portsmouth, NH, the Press Room bar’s simple wooden tables are crowded with young and old, unified only by the bulging journals they keep close at hand and the rapt attention they pay to the poet behind the mic. She whispers a few instructions to the bandleader, he signals his group, and they cobble together […]