Connecticut

Campbell Falls

Campbell falls is located in Norfolk on the border of Connecticut and Massachusetts. A short hike from the parking lot leads you to a beautiful, secluded falls.

History

It’s Not Easy to Believe in Ghosts

NOW WITH HALLOWEEN coming along at the end of this month, it’s time for ghost stories again. Over the years we’ve heard dozens of them, all supposedly “true.” But, you know, some are not easily explained. For instance, the late Dr. James Huntington, a Boston obstetrician who gave his 18th-century house, Firth Acres, in Hadley, […]

Rhode Island

RI Fall on the farm

This was taken on a barn tour in Glocester, RI

New England

Slow Foliage Drives Through Fall Color

Special moments in an autumn drive come when we take the time to stop, look around, visit places, and meet people as memorable as the foliage show. Farm off of Lime Kiln Road in New Haven, VTCredit: Corey Hendrickson Fall settles into New England slowly, color sliding north to south, highlands to valleys—but not all […]

History

About the Sacred Cod…or Haddock…or Schrod…or?

While “scrod” may be delicious, have you ever heard of anyone actually fishing for “scrod”? There is, of course, no such fish as “scrod” in New England waters or anywhere else. The term began years ago when fishing schooners would return from the Grand Banks to the Boston fish pier, loaded with fish ready to […]

Massachusetts

Seals on Cape Cod | Photographs

Photographer William Huber spent time in Chatham, Massachusetts, last summer capturing photographs of  the gray seals on Cape Cod for a feature story in the magazine.  A growing population of these seals have made their home here, with a large concentration on Monomoy Island.  The island, which was designated a federal wildlife refuge in 1970, […]

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