How do you go about choosing the twenty-five best beach towns in New England? It wasn’t easy, but we can guarantee that regardless of your personal criteria, there’s a beach town for you on our list.
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2015 New England Peak Fall Foliage Forecast
During a recent hike, I passed a stately, gnarled old apple tree on the edge of a farm field. It was heavily laden with fruit this year, and though they were far from ripe, their emerging flavors instantly transported my mind to one of those perfect autumn days, picking apples under endless blue skies, warm […]
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The 5 Best Things to See on U.S. Route 6
Travel journalist Malerie Yolen-Cohen picks the 5 best things to see along U.S. Route 6, once the longest transcontinental highway in America.
Our foliage expert, Jim Salge, will be returning for the 2015 foliage season to provide Yankee readers with weekly foliage updates beginning on August 20th. As a former meteorologist at the Mount Washington Observatory, Jim is a keen observer of the progression of the seasons in New England. He’ll use his knowledge of weather, geography […]
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Best Beachside Lodging | Sandcastles by the Sea
There’s nothing so pleasing as stepping out your door onto the beach and into the shimmering waves. Here’s our guide to the best beachside lodging in New England.
There’s nothing so pleasing as stepping out your door onto the beach and into the shimmering waves. Here’s our guide to the best beachside lodging in New England.
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New Bedford Whaling Museum
It’s the responsibility of any good history museum to tell both sides of a story. That’s somewhat more difficult when one side is a whale. The New Bedford Whaling Museum has successfully struck a balance between history and natural science that fully explores the complex and often bloody relationship between Earth’s two most dominant mammals. […]
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Best of Quebec | 2015 Editors’ Choice Awards
Looking for things to do and places to stay in Quebec? You won’t have to look far! Read our picks for the best of Quebec for 2015. BEST THINGS TO DO IN QUEBEC Best Country Drive Chemin du Roy, Montreal–Quebec City Roadside fruit stands and the steeples of historic churches glow in the afternoon light […]
Looking for things to do and places to stay in upstate New York? You won’t have to look far! Read our picks for the best of upstate New York for 2015. BEST ATTRACTIONS IN UPSTATE NEW YORK Best Sports Shrine Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown With multimedia installations and artifacts galore, the Baseball Hall pays moving […]
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New England’s Small Museums | The Memory Keepers
Can New England’s small museums survive a nation’s short attention span? Can they still bear witness to lives that mattered, to the stories they tell?
Buried treasures from the past wait to be heard and found again.
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The Single Soldier Monument | Civil War Memorial
In small towns throughout New England stand statues of a Civil War soldier, memorials to the nation’s deadliest conflict, which ended 150 years ago this April. We see them everywhere, yet they are nearly invisible. On hundreds of village greens across new england, in hundreds of city parks, before hundreds of libraries and town halls, […]