We Can Still Laugh at the Season A young woman got lost driving in a New England snowstorm. A snowplow passed, so she started following it. After 30 minutes, the plow stopped, and the driver asked what she was doing. “My father always told me that if I got lost in a snowstorm, I should […]
We Make the Best Hot Chocolate in the World Michael Klug, head chocolatier at L. A. Burdick in Walpole, New Hampshire, on making that perfect cup: The Right Stuff A great hot chocolate begins with good-quality ingredients. Klug opts for 2% milk over whole milk. “There’s already fat in the chocolate,” he explains. “And too-high […]
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Snow Shoveling Has Never Been So Easy No, it won’t actually remove the snow for you–you still have to get out of bed for that. But the Snow Wolf (formerly the Wovel), made by the New Canaan, Connecticut, company Nootools, won’t have you reaching for the Advil the way you used to, either. In fact, […]
Isabelle Abramson is a fan of serenity. That’s why the ceramics artist, who works in a studio in Boston’s South End, is house-hunting in Vermont. “I feel really good about my neighborhood in Boston, and I needed to be in a city to get started so that I could have access to people and show […]
New Englanders have been sliding down snow-covered hills since our nation’s founding, but not all sleds are created equal.
1/15/1919 day a giant molasses tank in Boston’s North End exploded, gushing more than 2 million gallons of the stuff into city streets 35 mph: speed at which the molasses initially rolled through the North End $3K amount the DiStasio family was compensated for the death of their 10-year-old daughter, MariaGet Our FREE Yankee Best […]
In downtown Northampton, Massachusetts, there’s one tree that looks particularly well prepared for winter. A colorful stockinette sweater hugs its trunk, with holes carefully placed to accommodate its branches. A yarn monkey dangles from one of the boughs. Around the base of the tree are three twentysomething women knitting furiously. Brie, Rachel, and Katie comprise […]
The winter of 2011 came slowly to north-central Maine. Low snowfall and mild temperatures had run through most of December, giving the deer a reprieve. But in January the season turned cold and unrelenting. For six weeks, there was no thaw, and now the snow on the eastern side of Moosehead Lake lay three feet […]
For almost half a century, Bob Fogg has been Hancock, NH’s man of the hours.
When I was growing up, a funeral was considered a somber event, one too gruesome to allow children to attend. As a result, I wasn’t allowed to attend the funerals of my grandparents or my great-aunts and great-uncles. Maybe that was a good thing, I don’t know, but I do know that for the past […]
Here’s an interesting little secret about magazine editors: We’re time travelers. Yes, it’s true. Okay, it’s not the kind of time travel Hollywood gushes over. We’re not armed with flux capacitors or sleek looking DeLoreans. I have no idea how the stock market will make out in 2012, what the Red Sox rotation will look like next […]
