The New Hampshire seacoast encompasses only 13 miles. A day’s walk, however, proves that it’s long on character and characters.
Travel
Maine
Summer on Sebago Lake
Head a half-hour or so northwest of Portland, Maine, a city defined by the sea, and you’ll come to Sebago Lake. Around its 45 square miles you won’t find wilderness, unless a storm rolls in, dark as night, and that’s wild enough when it catches you. But like thousands of lakes in New England, Sebago […]
A collection of New England lighthouse photographs taken by photographer and frequent contributor Kindra Clineff.
The wildly beautiful Maine Peninsulas invite ambling and stopping, so it’s so surprise that they’re also home to many wonderful places to eat, shop, and stay.
The wildly beautiful Maine Peninsulas invite ambling and stopping … And returning again and again.
Held each year on the beautiful grounds of Shelburne Farms in Shelburne, Vermont, the Vermont Cheesemakers Festival is a cheese-lover’s paradise.
Photographer Markham Starr captured one of the last days of operation at the Stinson Sardine cannery in Prospect Harbor, ME, ending more than 100 years of local history.
Vermont
Mirror Lake
When you live beside a New England lake, each season brings its own special intimacy. These are the mornings I’ll remember. The sky is already lit at 5:00 a.m., the lake like glass. Mist hangs in the hollows on the far shore, ghosted in the water below. No one else will be up for hours. […]
Two intrepid photographers trekked hut-to-hut across Presidential Range in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, discovering hardship, pain, beauty, and wonder along the way.
Connecticut
Keeler Tavern Museum | Local Treasure
Come for the cannonball, but stay for the stories. In Ridgefield, Connecticut, three centuries of stories are told at the Keeler Tavern, but it’s the cannonball that visitors usually want to see first. A gambrel-roofed building on Main Street, the Keeler Tavern celebrates 50 years as a living-history museum in 2016. “We’re known for the […]
New England
The Best 5 Farm Inns
It takes an open mind to stay at a working farm—a willingness to embrace both the peace of your surroundings and the unpredictability of each day’s developments. What happens on a farm 365 days a year is largely unscripted and exhilaratingly real. You don’t have to get your hands dirty, but this is your chance […]
New England
The Sounds of Summer 2016 | Out & About
Rhode Island Newport Folk Festival July 22–24 Since 1959, the Newport Folk Festival has held a unique place in America’s musical and cultural history, including as a hub for the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and as the site of Bob Dylan’s famous switch to electric guitar in 1965. Iconic performers like Joan Baez, […]