An on-site water-powered sawmill just might be the ultimate DIY add-on.
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Some people just seem to thrive on challenges. Take Bill and Betty Noble, for instance, owners of an 18th-century farmhouse in North Scituate, Rhode Island…
One of New England’s most authentic 19th-century mill towns goes on the market—lock, stock, and barrel.
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Best 5: Ski Cruisers
Favorite leisurely downhill picks from Skiing magazine’s Eastern editor.
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February Secrets | Mary’s Farm
For some unknowable reason, 19 of my good friends have birthdays in February–if you count my old dog, Mayday, who was born on February 20, that would be 20. I can hardly keep up. And so I’ve solved this problem by throwing what I call my February birthday party, inviting all my friends who were […]
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Finding Grace in a Cemetery
I grew up in cemeteries. One Sunday afternoon a month, after Mass, after the midday meal of lasagna or spaghetti and meatballs, my grandmother visited the dead. Mama Rose never learned to drive, so her cousin–Uncle Rum–took her from graveyard to graveyard in his square green Ford. I didn’t have a choice; when Mama Rose […]
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New England Passenger Trains
Riding the rails is as thrilling today as it was way back when. Here are Yankee’s picks for New England’s best passenger trips (check Web sites for seasonal schedules): 1. After a 36-year absence, passenger rail service has returned to Maine. Amtrak’s Downeaster connects Boston and Portland along a 114-mile rail corridor. 800-872-7245; amtrakdowneaster.com 2. […]
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West Hartford, CT: Ice Climbing
Crampons. Check. Helmet. Ice picks. Backpack. Climbing harness. Check. All geared up, Matt Shove–my ice-climbing guide from Eastern Mountain Sports (EMS) Climbing School–and I hiked into the woods. “It’s a short walk,” Matt told me. And three minutes later, I was facing the frozen waterfall at Connecticut’s Thomaston Ice Quarry–the same slab of ice that […]
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Spend a Winter Day in New England
7:30 A.M. WHERE THE SUN RISES FIRST Sunrise from Cadillac Mountain reveals a coastline carved with a crooked knife. From that famous vantage on Mount Desert Island, the coast of Maine comes out of the dark. It’s a complicated affair of peninsulas and coves, a jigsaw of rock and water, a play of motion and […]
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Happy Solstice!
Happy solstice, a somewhat forgotten mark of time and the movement of the planets. In the northern hemisphere, today is the shortest day of the year and the longest night; it is also the first day of winter. No one seems to want to celebrate that as much as we like to acknowledge the first […]
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Hot Money
A couple of weeks ago, in church, our minister got up to preach his sermon and, before he began and without a word, he stepped down from the pulpit and began to distribute something. It looked like he was peeling bills off a roll of cash. We in the choir were served last and discovered […]
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Pansies Still in Bloom
The first snow appeared on Mt. Monadnock this morning, the dark profile arching white in the morning’s new light. Rain pelted the windows down here all night long with a thunderous, roaring wind that set one of the shutters loose. But no snow, not even temperatures below freezing. In the old iron kettle on the […]