BEST COMFORT FOOD THE PERFECT WIFE RESTAURANT & THE OTHER WOMAN TAVERN, Manchester Chef/owner Amy Chamberlain offers a full-scale fine-dining menu in the restaurant area (with rustic cobblestone walls and greenhouse garden room) and a slightly more down-home list of comfort foods (including a trio of sliders: cheeseburger, crabcake with remoulade, and grilled chicken with […]
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Massachusetts
Springtime at Amory Park
Amory park in Brookline
Vermont
Quechee Red Barns
This photo was taken in the beautiful green mountains in Vermont.
At Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, horticulture guru Bill Cullina celebrates the beauty of the state’s most overlooked landscapes: its woodlands. Ninety percent of Maine is woodland: That’s the highest percentage of any state, but it’s no surprise to anyone who has driven north on I-95, a straight line cutting through the endless forest on either […]
If high-end art, village charm, and a hike along wind-scoured cliffs draws you in, Monhegan Island in Maine is the island for you.
Just pedal or stroll and breathe in the salt air on Peaks Island, with views to tempt a sea captain. MORNING: Chances are you won’t be alone on the 20-minute Casco Bay Lines ferry ride over to Peaks Island; the nearly hourly departures are pretty full, at least on weekends. But once you land, in the […]
Rhode Island
Block Island | Summer Trip to “Bermuda of the North”
Last summer, I went on a scouting trip to Block Island — that lovely little locale some 13 miles out to sea off the Rhode Island coast. The goal was to generate ideas for a cover that would best suit our “Islands” theme for the May/June 2013 Travel Guide (on newsstands now — we work […]
Massachusetts
The Perfect Nantucket, MA, Day Trip
Our perfect Nantucket, MA day trip starts with breakfast and the whaling museum, and ends with dinner and the quintessential island sunset.
One thing’s for sure: There’s weather here. Enfolded in the bright white clouds that scud like sails across the sky, casting shadows over Lake Champlain. In the heavy sunlight penetrating this year’s peonies, burnishing them from within. And in the rain that’s been pelting nonstop as we edge our way north past Burlington, Vermont, on […]
A shot of Portland Head Light in Cape Elizabeth, Me.
Rhode Island
Old Estate on the Albany Turnpike in Pine Meadow
Sunset at Bass Head Light in Maine