Ready to hop in your car to take in the vibrant colors of fall? Use these driving directions for the best slow drives to see foliage in New England.
Travel
Thinking about going to this year’s Maine Lobster Festival? Here’s a look at what you can expect when attending the ultimate crustacean celebration.
New Hampshire
Bridge Over Sugar River
A photo taken of the walking bridge over the Sugar River in Claremont, NH with a view of some of the gorgeous old brick mill buildings
Massachusetts
Pettengill Farm’s Vintage Bazaar
I am always on the hunt for something to finish up a room or reinvent a space. It drives my husband nuts, and me sometimes too, but when I find the right piece, I can move on to the next room—until I find another piece that completely derails my “finished” space. And truthfully, old vintage […]
Before being phased out in the mid-80s, the Kennebunkport Dump Parade was one of New England’s most unusual celebrations. Trash. We all have it, and we all create it. We spend our lives trying to get rid of it. There’s nothing dignified or elegant about trash. But if you were in Kennebunkport, Maine during the […]
Connecticut
Brooms – Martha’s Vineyard
Hand-crafted brooms for sale at a craft fair near Edgartown on Martha’s Vineyard, MA
The “Upper Valley” along the Vermont/New Hampshire border is a collection of little-known small towns featuring the New England we all look for. You’ll find beauty, nature, soft adventure, art, and so much more.
Massachusetts
Spectacle Island | An Island Retreat Minutes from Boston
Boston’s Spectacle Island is the ultimate story of urban revitalization. A former smallpox quarantine and garbage dump turned into a bucolic retreat for city dwellers…with the help of truckloads of dirt excavated from the Big Dig. And it’s just a 20-minue boat ride from Boston. The human tale of Spectacle Island goes back centuries. […]
Connecticut
The Southington Drive-In | Nostalgic Movie Fun
With only 20 drive-in theatres left in New England, Connecticut’s Southington Drive-In is turning nostalgic movie fun into a source of community enrichment. When a traffic jam stretched for more than two miles in the quiet town of Southington, Connecticut, one summer Saturday in 2010, the source of the backup wasn’t a fender bender but […]
New England
12 Best Picnic Spots in New England
All 12 of these best picnic spots in New England (from hilltops and beaches to orchards and wineries) are well worth the trip.
Not only does the hamlet of Cornish, New Hampshire, have some impressive covered bridges, it’s also the home of Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site.
It’s five hours from Boston, Massachusetts, to Greenville, Maine, the last town en route to our destination, and it’s still another hour beyond there — on broken paved roads and dirt logging trails — to Little Lyford Pond Camps. These narrow byways are rutted and full of potholes. On the better sections, you might try […]