Newport Bridge taken from the Causeway
Rhode Island
Travel
New England
Perfect Ski Day at Cannon Mountain
A couple weeks ago, Martha Wilson shared her insider tips to experience the perfect ski day at Bretton Woods. This week, Meghan McCarthy McPhaul zips us around her home hill. Meghan grew up skiing at Cannon Mountain and is the author of A History of Cannon Mountain: Trails, Tales and Skiing Legends. With three kids under […]
Rhode Island
Coast Guard Light House Narragansett R.i.
LIGHT HOUSE IN PT.JUDITH
Massachusetts
Beacon Hill, Boston
On any given day, Beacon Hill’s brick sidewalks are dotted with camera-toting tourists. It is one of the oldest and most historic neighborhoods in the city, home to the gold-domed State Capital and one soon-to-be Secretary of State, and it’s a must-see on any travel itinerary. For some Bostonians, the Hill is almost too perfect, […]
This time of year, it’s easy to see how the Whites Mountains in New Hampshire got their name. The range contains some of the highest mountains in New England, which tower above surrounding valleys to heights where trees can no longer grow. As the snow begins to pile up, and the rime ice accrues on […]
A collection of black and white images of winter in New England from featured photographer Michael Zide.
New England
Martha Wilson’s Perfect Ski Day at Bretton Woods
Here’s an excerpt from Yankee Publishing Inc.’s newest special interest publication, NH Ski & Snow Magazine. It is available for free at sports and outdoor retailers in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, coastal Connecticut, Southern New Hampshire and Maine, and at New Hampshire Welcome Centers. You can also view the electronic version here: Digital NH Ski and […]
Massachusetts
Saturday at the New England Aquarium
What happens when you bring a quizzical two-year-old to a museum stocked full of exotic marine life? Simple but direct demands like, “Open it.” As in, open the tank and let’s all start playing with the fish and sea lions. On a recent Saturday, as Boston was absorbing a full on crush of holiday shoppers, […]
The New England Ski Museum takes you from early man’s first tracks to the treasures of the world’s most daring downhill racer.
Lighting is everything when it comes to aging movie stars; no less so when it comes to this handsome brick edifice possibly past its prime. The Wilton Town Hall Theatre, carved into a steep hillside in the center of Wilton, New Hampshire, was young when vaudeville came knocking. The interior of the dusky town hall […]
The lady needs an electric can opener. It’s a Thursday morning at Wilson’s Department Store in Greenfield, Massachusetts, and, so far at least, a quiet one at the 130-year-old downtown landmark. On one floor there’s a woman in search of a button-down shirt for her son; another, one floor above her, looking at jewelry. Then […]
New Hampshire
The World at Your Fingertips | Old Number Six Book Depot
Atop a forested New Hampshire hillside, up past an ancient snow-covered burial ground and a 19th-century railroad station, a big green spruce graces the front yard of an old white-clapboard farmhouse. Inside the attached two-story barn, a first-class education awaits. A labyrinth of homemade shelving is stuffed floor to ceiling with every species of the […]