Each fall, as thousands of raptors fly southward over New England, hundreds of volunteers watch and keep count. On a cold October morning at Lighthouse Point in Connecticut, Bill Banks stands in an open field and squints into a brightening sky. The distant roar of traffic along the I-95 corridor washes over him. The sun, […]
SLIDE SHOW: Trap Day on Monhegan No one goes till everyone goes. That’s the way it’s always been on Trap Day on Monhegan, when the island’s lobstermen first set their traps off the darkened shoreline of one of Maine’s most storied offshore communities. Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe Over […]
Where is peak color? Yankee editor Mel Allen has the answer! It’s time to take your fall foray through New England. Watch the colors change on the Peak Color Map for best times to visit in September and October. Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe DRIVES: This drive goes through […]
Photographer Peter Ralston captured Trap Day on Maine’s Monhegan Island last year, when all the lobster boats are loaded with traps at the same time for the start of a new season. Dawn on October 1 means it’s time to go lobstering again. Read more: Trap Day on Monhegan See more works by Peter RalstonGet […]
The salt marshes and tidal flats at the mouth of New England’s longest river spread through a portion of the busy I-95 corridor of one of the most densely populated states in the country. It’s an area The Nature Conservancy included on its list of the Western Hemisphere’s 40 “Last Great Places”: the Connecticut River […]
Balloon Festival
Balloon Festival
Balloon inflation at the Balloon Festival
Lighthouse is situated on one of the most beautiful places where dry land meets the sea.
Located on the Island of Jamestown. A nice place to go to sit on rocks
Little girl playing in grass at West Beach with pier behind her
Summer Vines before the Fruit
