Maine

Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse

My husband and I visited Camden, Maine for our niece’s wedding. It was a weekend event and we took time to visit this lighthouse on a very foggy and misty day.

Maine

Camden Harbor

A view of the harbor in Camden, Maine

Travel

Martha’s Vineyard — Gardens, Fish, Markets

Read more: House for Sale: Affordable Martha’s Vineyard On Martha’s Vineyard a garden, a clam rake, and a fishing pole will provide you with a lot of exciting ingredients for your summer meals. But for those without a green thumb, or a way with the rod and reel, fish markets and some 30 farms offer […]

Massachusetts

Around Cape Ann With a Paddle

The 20-mile Blackburn Challenge, “the East Coast’s premier open-water human-powered boat competition,” is named for a Gloucester fisherman who famously froze his fingers to his oars in order to row back from God knows where in the middle of winter in 1883. The good news is he survived. The bad news is he lost enough […]

Massachusetts

Tanglewood Picnic

For fans of music and food, there’s no more enchanting outing than a Tanglewood picnic in the summer. For more than seven decades, the members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (and a host of friends) have been switching to white summer tuxes and creating beautiful music in the dreamy surroundings of the Berkshire Hills in […]

Travel

Photographing Maine’s Blueberry Barrens

A cool mist and a milky, overcast sky mercifully keep the sun off the backs of the blueberry rakers on the desolate barrens north of Columbia Falls, in Maine’s coastal Washington County. Close to 100 rakers, stooped and sweaty, work their way across the vast open landscape, littered with pickup trucks and brightly colored plastic […]

Massachusetts

Rear Range Light | Lighthouse Dining in Newburyport, MA

Ten years ago, James Hyland, president and founder of the Lighthouse Preservation Society, decided to serve up something a little different to aid his fundraising work. Since its founding in 1984, his Dover, New Hampshire-based nonprofit has helped save and restore some 160 lighthouses across the country. In 1999, Hyland set his sights on Rear […]

New England

Find Moose, Whales, Puffins

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