Food

Westport Rivers Vineyard and Winery

Westport Rivers Vineyard and Winery sits on 500 acres of beautiful farmland located between Fall River and New Bedford, Massachusetts, an area in and of itself that is a pleasure to visit. The winery is open year-round with free tours on Saturdays and Sundays. The gift shop, tasting room, and art gallery are open May-Dec. […]

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David Haskell’s Picks

One of David’s fall favorites is an unusual plant called Heptacodium miconioides (seven-son flower). It is a shrublike tree with green leaves during summer, but it puts on a command performance come fall. First, it produces panicles of star-shaped white blossoms in September and October. Then, its calyxes, which are green when flowering, ripen to […]

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Donald Hall: A Poet for All Ages

Donald Hall has long been one of New England’s most gifted writers of poetry and prose. Writing from his farmhouse in the village of Wilmot, New Hampshire, Hall’s images cut to the heart of anyone, anywhere. This month he begins his one-year appointment as poet laureate of the United States. To honor its local gift […]

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Maxfield Parrish’s Work Gets a Home

Maxfield Parrish’s Daybreak recently sold for $7.6 million. That’s good news, because the seller’s grant of $300,000 will help purchase a permanent home for the Cornish Colony Museum, in Windsor, Vermont, home to the largest collection of Parrish’s work. The name of its current Parrish exhibition is, appropriately enough, Coming Home. Through October 29. 802-674-6008. […]

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The Smiley Face: More Famous Than Mona Lisa

Born and raised in Worcester, Massachusetts, the late Harvey Ball, a self-employed commercial artist, drew the first smiley face in December 1963 for a local insurance company that wanted happy buttons to raise employee morale. He said he received about $45 for the sketch, drawn with black felt-tip pen on yellow paper. Before his death […]

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