LOCATION: Parsonsfield Date: October 13 Time: 11:30 a.m. Equipment: 60mm lens “The leaves falling, the rocking chairs on the porch, the white New England house, the colors with the sun poking in and out, were too good to pass up.”
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Keoka Lake, Waterford
LOCATION: Keoka Lake, Waterford Date: October 11 Time: 8:00 a.m. Equipment: 40mm lens “After shooting sunrise at Bear Pond, I returned to the lake in Waterford where I’d scouted some colorful leaves earlier, and I captured one of my favorite shots yet: a canopy of yellow leaves hanging down over the beach, with lake and […]
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Cornish
LOCATION: Cornish Date: October 13 Time: 1:00 p.m. Equipment: 60mm lens “This was a quick shot. I wanted to get so many views, but I had to pick my daughter up at the school bus. When my film is processed, every time I receive it it’s like receiving a Christmas gift. I may have an […]
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Paradise Hill
LOCATION: Paradise Hill, Bethel Date: October 10 Time: 6:40 a.m. Equipment: 40mm lens “I went to where I knew there would be color, on the east side of the mountain. I like the whimsy of the trees, almost Dr.Seuss-like, with slender trunks and bushy tops.”
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Bear Pond
LOCATION: Bear Pond, Waterford Date: October 11 Time: 6:15 a.m. Equipment: 40mm lens “I’d gone by Bear Pond in the dark, so I hadn’t noticed the gorgeous granite boulders, definitely one of my weaknesses! I have a hard time passing them by.”
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Keoka Lake
LOCATION: Keoka Lake, Waterford Date: October 3 Time: 6:22 a.m. Equipment: 40mm lens “I left the house before 5 a.m. There was mist rising off the lake, and there’s always a good chance for a good photo when mist is rising off water … When I drove into Waterford, I drove by Keoka Lake. The […]
Next summer, my house will turn 250 years old. I’m at a loss as to how to celebrate this once-in-a-lifetime milestone. I’ve taken part in only 14 of those years, fewer than 10 percent, and yet I feel its protection like a turtle in her shell. Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! […]
3.6 million: number of foliage tourists who visit Vermont each autumn Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe $331.9 million: average annual value of foliage tourists to Vermont’s economy 16,000 number of apple-cider doughnuts sold each weekend day in October at Cold Hollow Cider Mill in Waterbury Center, VT 30,560 number […]
Why is it that so many writers of spooky stories–Edgar Allen Poe (Massachusetts), H. P. Lovecraft (Rhode Island), Stephen King (Maine)–have been New Englanders? Now Vermont’s Chris Bohjalian joins the lineup. Or should I say the coven? After reading Bohjalian’s The Night Strangers, I wonder how much it has to do with our architecture. Every […]
Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe Often the smartest person in the room is also the weirdest, a fact that is rarely more evident than at Harvard University’s annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. For one evening every fall, the average IQ inside Sanders Theatre spikes as the brightest minds around […]
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Orren Fox | The Big Question
Orren Fox is a lot of things. He’s a chicken farmer, beekeeper, staunch foodie, and avid Celtics fan. He’s also a blogger with a large following. And, oh yeah, he’s only a freshman in high school. Since getting his first chickens five years ago, the 14-year-old vegetarian has immersed himself in the issues surrounding not […]
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Racing with Henry
Sometimes a miracle happens–a parent can become a hero again.