For several years I made a region outside of New England my home. There was a lot to miss, but more than anything, I longed for the summers. I was landlocked and had no outlet from the oppressive humidity that defined the warmer months. Trips to the shore and the sweet smell of the sea-salt […]
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The May 25, 1965, Ali vs. Liston fight for heavyweight champion of the world was supposed to make Lewiston, Maine, famous. Instead, it became “the fiasco.” Excerpt from “The Night Lewiston, Maine, Can Never Forget,” Yankee Magazine, May, 1979. The rematch for the heavyweight championship of the world between Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) and former […]
Some ball hawks don’t need gloves. Watching baseball and watching birds require similar skills. Both employ patience and imagination, sometimes deep thought; both progress slowly, appear boring from a distance, but are punctuated by bursts of joyous activity; neither is hampered by time. Over the years I’ve discovered that major-league ballparks are good places for birdwatching. […]
“I don’t care if I’m beautiful; I don’t care what I am on the outside. It isn’t about the outside.” —Donna Summer (1948–2012). Famous under her stage name of Donna Summer, she was born LaDonna Adrian Gaines in Boston and raised in the Mission Hill neighborhood by her father, a butcher, and her mother, a […]
The Allen sisters, Frances and Mary, found uncommon beauty in the people and landscape of Deerfield, Massachusetts. For three decades, from the end of the 19th century into the early 1920s, the photographs made by two sisters, Frances Stebbins Allen and Mary Electa Allen, bathed the people and landscape in and around their home in Deerfield, […]
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The John Hancock Tower | Up Close
The John Hancock Tower—the tallest building in New England—turns 40 in 2016, but it wasn’t always heralded as the modern architectural feat that it is. From its groundbreaking in 1968 to its purchase in 2010 by Boston Properties Inc., Boston’s John Hancock Tower—now branded “200 Clarendon,” after its street address—has endured a history rife with […]
The annual Apple Blossom Cotillion in Springfield, Vermont, offers the town’s young people the chance to participate in a seasonal tradition like no other.
Trying to build a new homestead farm, the Hewitts found themselves in a race with nature, one with no clearly defined finish line.
Did you know that it took an average of twenty-one days for Norman Rockwell to complete a painting? Learn more tidbits and Norman Rockwell trivia.
Some history buffs in New Hampshire — myself included — have always believed that the colonists’ attack on Fort William and Mary in New Castle, New Hampshire, four months before the battles in Lexington and Concord, was, in fact, the beginning of the American Revolution. We feel that the only reason the rest of America […]
The onset of a yard sale typically begins with the realization that your junk seems to be reproducing, creating entirely new categories of clutter. So you decide to sell that extra stuff, casting better judgment and previous experience to the wind. Photo/Art by Mark Brewer First comes a period of sorting, pricing, and domestic negotiation. […]
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Best Places to Eat in Boston
Where are the best places to eat in Boston? From North End restaurants to Beacon Hill bistros and the best places to eat near Fenway, we’ve got you covered.