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Connecticut
Collinsville, CT: Halloween Parade
This year’s event will be held on Halloween, Saturday, October 29. Kids’ activities begin at 6:30 p.m.; parade starts at 7:00 p.m. collinsvillehalloween.com The first year we attended the Collinsville Halloween Parade, I pulled out my seldom-used sewing machine to make my 2-year-old son a pumpkin costume. My husband and I dressed as scarecrows and […]
New England
Summer Pool Parties
I have been waiting (not so patiently) for summer weather to arrive, and finally it has. It’s here. I am very excited. Having spent the last week in North Carolina, where the temperature hit 100 plus, New England’s balminess is fine. It’s not the best sleeping weather, and I am using fans to keep things […]
I drove out on snowy spring days or in the dark evenings of early summer, to Cornwall and Salisbury and New Haven and Shoreham and Lincoln. I took off my boots in the houses of strangers and asked that they trust this place I might create, which I did not know how to create. I […]
New England
When You Go — Ziplines
Alpine Adventures Treetop Canopy Tour & Sky Rider Lincoln, NH (offices) 888-745-9911, 603-745-9911 alpinezipline.com Wildcat Mountain Ziprider Pinkham Notch, NH 888-754-9453, 603-466-3326 skiwildcat.com/ziprider.html Adventure Gorge Zipline Canopy Tour Plymouth, NH 888-289-1020 whitemountainexploration.com/zip_line.htmlGet Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe Bretton Woods Canopy Tour Bretton Woods, NH 603-278-4947 mountwashingtonresort.com/activities/canopy_tour/overview Sugarbush Zipline Warren, VT […]
New England
Ziplining Through Color
When you’re afraid of heights, a thin grated walkway pegged 40 feet up a tree is an uncomfortable place to find yourself. It’s even less comfortable when everyone around you expects you to jump off it–but that’s exactly what I signed up for here at Alpine Adventures’ zipline course, on Barron Mountain in the White […]
There’s a reason this stretch of highway–some 200 miles from Massachusetts to Lake Memphremagog–has been called the best foliage drive in VT, and even the most scenic in all of New England.
Massachusetts
New England Quilt Museum in Lowell, MA
On a cobblestone corner in downtown Lowell, Massachusetts, volunteers are decoding the genealogy of the Bay State one quilted panel at a time. Once a month, the Massachusetts Quilt Documentation (MassQuilts) Project invites people from around the Commonwealth to drag their grandmothers’ quilts out of those old steamer trunks. They can bring them by the […]
Massachusetts
Restaurant Review: Fruitlands
When the rolling hills of central Massachusetts beckoned, Bronson Alcott (Louisa May’s dad) and his optimistic band of Utopians settled in and named their farm “Fruitlands,” as they planned to live off the fruits of the land. Their 1843 experiment was short-lived, but Clara Endicott Sears, a Brahmin with vision, picked up the pieces in […]
New Hampshire
Climb Every White Mountain Trail
Tony Federer has never been one to sit still–or stay indoors. In 1995 the Kearsarge, New Hampshire, resident kicked off his retirement from the U.S. Forest Service, where he’d worked for 40 years as a research scientist, by hiking the 2,175-mile Appalachian Trail. His outdoor resume also includes several finishes of the grueling footrace up […]
New England
Where to See Hawks in New England
Wondering where to see hawks in New England? Here are some of our favorite spots throughout the region to keep watch.
New England
New England Hawk Migration | Watching the Skies
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, […]