The Trustees of Reservations in Massachusetts have protected and preserved 102 properties since the group was founded in 1891. With 100,000 members, the Trustees organization maintains both natural and man-made places–from wetlands and islands to mansions and barns. Read more: Land Preservation in Massachusetts See more: Photography by William Huber.
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The annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade in South Boston, Massachusetts joins history, tradition, and local pride.
SLIDE SHOW: Trustees of Reservations Will Garrison watches his “decorative” cows munch the green grass at the bottom of the hill. They don’t actually belong to him, or for that matter, to Naumkeag, the historic mansion (now a museum) in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, that he helps manage. More than 30 years ago, the Trustees of Reservations […]
READ MORE: More Cape Cod articles MORE PHOTOS: Cape Cod Photos by Alison Shaw It’s a light that glows from within, like driving into an Edward Hopper painting. Bright, buttery, demanding, it glances off the water and sinks into the sand and sea-weathered shingles. Paint me, notice me, it whispers–I’m spring for your eyes and […]
Gordon Lankton’s first Russian icon, a c. 1850 image of St. Nicholas, hangs in a dark corner of the lowest level of his museum. He found it lying in the dust at a Russian flea market in 1990 and bought it for $25. He doesn’t think it’s a very good one anymore, and he’s not […]
When I was in high school, the kids who took French class were treated to a special end-of-year lunch at a restaurant housed inside a historic 19th-century lecture hall in Salem, Massachusetts. While dining at The Lyceum, we had to speak only in French and at least try les cuisses de grenouilles (frogs’ legs). We […]
There are those who call themselves members of the L Street Brownies, the famed South Boston polar bear club that makes its home at the James M. Curley Community Center, and then there are the hard-core types like Jack Dever. Beyond the group’s annual New Year’s Day dip, the 70-year-old L Street Brownies president has […]
It’s exactly what it sounds like, and it’s only on display at this local museum.
c. 1600: Passaconaway, a Pennacook chief living at Pawtucket Falls, emerges as leader of the Merrimack Valley’s native peoples. 1635: English settlers move into the valley. 1652: The area called Wamesit, between the Merrimack and Concord rivers, is declared Indian territory.Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe 1655: Chelmsford is chartered […]
Henry David Thoreau took four walking tours of Cape Cod from 1849 to 1857. Present-day photographer Dan Tobyne asks, “What would Thoreau see today if he walked the same route?” These photographs, from the book, Thoreau’s Cape Cod (Commonwealth Editions), are the answer. More photos by Dan Tobyne: dmtle.com More about the book: Commonwealth Editions
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 […]
