As I’ve said before in this space, sometimes a theme emerges in an issue, unexpectedly, as if it’s been hiding in plain sight. Only when I read the entire issue again, on the first weekend of this new year, did I find this one: the people and places we pass by each day without really […]
Theaters are in Garen Daly’s blood: His grandparents were vaudeville performers. A former theater manager, he also produces the Boston Science Fiction Film Festival—in between hosting The Garen Daly Show on WNTN AM 1550, blogging at FrugalYankee.com, and serving as a movie critic for print, radio, and television. He says that some of America’s most […]
For more than two centuries, lumber from the Wilkins sawmill has built barns and homes, redone kitchens, and framed additions. Tom Wilkins keeps the legacy alive.
One federal body has the power to decide whether a pipeline is needed. FERC—the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission—issues a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity to a project it approves. The commission’s “statement of policy” says that it must consider “the enhancement of competitive transportation alternatives, the possibility of overbuilding, the avoidance of unnecessary disruption […]
Want a unique movie-going experience? We asked movie critic Garen Daly to choose the 5 best cinemas in New England, plus 5 honorable mentions. The task, he says, was “very difficult.” Theaters are in Garen Daly’s blood: His grandparents were vaudeville performers. A former theater manager, he also produces the Boston Science Fiction Film Festival—in between hosting The Garen […]
The Nichols House Museum offers an intimate look at turn-of-the-last-century domestic life on Beacon Hill in Boston.
A city boy explains the enduring appeal of his sister’s Maine homestead. “You’re obviously playing the long game,” I tell my brother-in-law, Peter, after we spend an hour strolling around what he and my sister, Rebekah, consider their “forest farm”: a third of an acre of southern Maine woodland on which they’ve planted chestnuts, hazelnuts, […]
When You Fall into a Freezing River in Maine, the Will to Live Can Be Measured by the Need to Save One You Love. If you fall into a river after a flood, when slabs of ice cover the banks, and if the water is up to your chin and you look up at those […]
When the citizens of three tiny New Hampshire communities gather at midnight to cast their votes, more than politics is at stake.
Here’s the dilemma: New England needs energy, but every proposed solution comes with risk, potential environmental damage, and public anger. First in a two-part series about New England energy.
For the would-be do-it-yourselfer, our guide to homesteading, from cheesemaking to raising chickens to building your own (tiny) house in New England. Here in the land of Yankee ingenuity, the desire to be more self-sufficient is something like a birthright. Conspicuous consumption may be our economy’s primary driver, but the Puritan ethic still holds some […]
Kosti Ruohomaa’s work told the stories of Maine’s people and the rugged lives they led. When Kosti Ruohomaa looked through the lens of his camera, he saw not only a single photograph but also a story, one filled with emotion, drama, and the complexity of life. Ruohomaa was born to Finnish immigrants in Quincy, Massachusetts, […]
