In memory of Yankee’s Edie Clark, we look back on our 2018 tribute after she said good-bye to the historic homestead where she found “the best, most rewarding kind of love.”
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Growing up Finnish-American taught painter Eric Aho to meet the extremes of winter in with extremes of imagination.
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Looking Back on Our Town
Eighty years after Thornton Wilder wrote Our Town, the classic play still lives in the small town of Peterborough, New Hampshire.
We asked veteran Maine musher Polly Mahoney: What makes a top dog?
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Storm Chaser | Winter Comforts
When I was in my twenties, I spent the better part of my leisure time at a certain bar in Cambridge, Massachusetts, situated in a basement-level space on that somewhat charmless stretch of Mass. Ave. between Harvard and Central squares. It was called the Cellar, and it possessed all the elements of a good cold-weather New […]
From ice castles and ice harvests to boat shows and film festivals, these New England winter events are well worth the drive.
Decades after Bowdoin graduate Robert Peary first staked his claim, the path to the North Pole stills runs through his alma mater at the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum.
Libby’s Bistro & Saalt Pub, a North Country standby, brings a taste of the world to rural New Hampshire.
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Peak Chic | Up Close
Credit: Mark Fleming Tom Padham suiting up for his job in winter is a little like a firefighter donning turnout gear. Both must protect themselves from head to toe against an extreme environment, which for Padham is the Northeast’s highest summit (where last January saw 127 mph gusts and a wind chill of -65). True, […]
Credit: courtesy of the Library of Congress “Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.” —Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). Though she wrote hundreds of plays, novels, stories, and poems during her lifetime, this Massachusetts author is best known for Little Women. That novel, which turns 150 this year, […]
All the wood heat literature emphasizes that dry wood burns better than wet, which leaves you with two choices: Either get some green wood and put it under cover for a year or so, or burn wood that is already good and dry, wood that you already have, wood that you can identify without special […]
Discovering Nordic-style thrills on the longest ice skating trail in the country at Lake Morey Resort in Vermont.