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Boston, MA: Boston Public Library
Just about any destination you head to in Boston takes you past the Boston Public Library on Copley Square. Don’t zip by–leave time to poke inside one of the city’s greatest structures. You just might find a day of enlightenment. The building itself is a grand bit of architecture and artwork, with structural references to […]
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Rockport, MA | Paintings
I recently visited my father’s art studio in Rockport. He had a show with a Cape Ann theme going up soon, and for some reason I asked him whether he’d ever painted Motif No. 1, the iconic red fishing shack on Bradley Wharf. I thought I knew the answer, that being no. But my dad […]
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Oak Bluffs, MA: Kayaking
There’s a kayak outfit on Martha’s Vineyard that advertises, “You only know it’s an island from the water.” That rang true this day when my husband, Barry, and I dragged our kayaks into the water. His had a rudder, and he could fish while steering with his feet. My job, in my little single kayak, […]
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Chatham, MA: Cape Cod Baseball
On a sultry Fourth of July evening in the Cape Cod town of Chatham, a red sun drops beyond the tall, dark trees behind the left-field scoreboard. Red-white-and-blue bunting drapes the length of the outfield fence. The evening sky, its lacy clouds edged in pink, gives the warm, feel-good sense of a Maxfield Parrish painting; […]
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Restaurant Review: Fresh, Nantucket, MA
Along the well-worn paths that lead from the Steamship Authority and Hy-Line ferry docks on the island of Nantucket sits Fresh, a specialty food shop run by fresh-faced college kids ready to hand you a sandwich on your way to the beach bus or the taxi line. But these are no mere sandwiches. They’re seasonally […]
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Martha’s Vineyard, MA, Weekend
A year-round community thrives on Martha’s Vineyard, and its presence keeps the many local businesses going, from bakeries, farms, and restaurants to art galleries, specialty shops, and truly unique shopping and dining experiences. There’s no shortage of raw material–whether it’s fresh local oysters on the menu to the works of stellar artisans crafting everything from […]
With a past both sad and even sordid, Dogtown has drawn painters, writers, lovers of history, and seekers of solitude. What is its secret?
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Ashland, MA: John Stone Inn
W.R.A.I.T.H. One of T.J.Tucker’s most interesting investigations was conducted at the John Stone Inn in Ashland, Massachusetts. “It was just a friend of mine and I who went to the inn. There’s a legend that John Stone haunts it and that the guy that he killed haunts it, but there’s also a little girl who […]
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Nantucket’s Shifting Shoreline
Around 20,000 years ago, the massive Laurentide ice sheet halted its southerly advance just past Cape Cod and, shedding its load of till, and began to form a terminal moraine still discernible in the series of hills that stretch from Tuckernuck to Siasconset. Back then, sea level was nearly 400 feet lower than today, placing […]
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Sophia Thoreau Leaves | Concord Museum Exhibit
Henry David Thoreau’s poetry inscribed on leaves. The symbiotic link between nature and literature is perhaps nowhere more apparent than in Concord, Massachusetts. With just enough forest between Concord’s tree-lined streets and Boston’s bustling avenues, this village remains a place of solace for writers and vacationers alike. In one shady corner of town you’ll find […]
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Restaurant Review: L’Espalier, Boston
For more than 25 years, a clientele of dedicated food and wine enthusiasts have ascended the creaky staircase of an 1886 Gloucester Street brownstone in Boston’s Back Bay to celebrate the milestones of their lives with chef Frank McClelland of L’Espalier. Now the much-anticipated opening of the Mandarin Oriental hotel at the Prudential Center on […]