Stephen Jermanok, travel writer and father of two young children, reveals his favorite family adventure spots. Get ready for New England’s best adventures in rafting and biking in Massachusetts, mountain biking in Vermont, sea kayaking in Rhode Island, camping in Maine, and canoeing in New Hampshire.
Queenie came into my life in March 1953, when she was 9 months old and I was 8 years old, living in Orfordville, New Hampshire. My father bought her in New York for his zoo, which he opened when we moved to Vermont in 1954. Queenie and I grew up together. She could sense my […]
Our church holds a rummage sale, spring and fall. I’ve come to think of it as my savior. It starts with the horse sheds. Townspeople know that throughout the year, they can leave unwanted items in one of the bays of the old horse sheds behind the church. I can’t always manage to synchronize my […]
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Legal Sea Foods 5 Cambridge Center Cambridge, MA (and 29 other East Coast locations) 617-864-3400; legalseafoods.com Although many places offer stuffed lobster, we were bowled over by Legal’s generous scallop-and-shrimp take on it (no crumbs). Add in those big chunks of lobster, and you’ve got a seafood meal supreme.
The West Deck 1 Waites Wharf Newport, RI 401-847-3610 The “Bermuda” in The West Deck’s fish chowder is Gosling’s rum and a sherry-pepper sauce. But the clam-stock base and chunks of salmon, swordfish, and sometimes striped bass or sole, depending on what’s available, are what make it hearty and no longer a “best-kept secret.”
Omni Parker House 60 School St. Boston, MA 617-227-8600; omnihotels.com In addition to its famous Boston scrod and Parker House rolls, this hotel’s kitchen is said to have invented this custard-filled, chocolate-glazed sponge cake (see the recipe, right). Sometimes nothing but the original (in these elegant surroundings) will do. Massachusetts’ legislators agreed, making Boston cream […]
From Yankee Magazine October 1981 (Also, read about the Ira Allen House, Yankee‘s House for Sale this month.) Vermonters have always been proud of the fact that their state was an independent republic before it joined the United States. Ethan and Ira Allen are justly famed as the leaders who steered that independent course. But […]
A recent cartoon in the New Yorker depicts two older couples sitting amidst the construction debris of the interior of a house. The host says, “Our dream is to live long enough to see the end of our renovation.” I have often spoken those words here, where, one room at a time, the walls have […]
After nearly three decades in show business, a successful actress moves to a bucolic New England village where she creates and sells her own line of clothing. The role is one Karen Allen might be tempted to play — if she weren’t already living it. Best known for starring in the film classics National Lampoon’s […]
