To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always. -attributed to HippocratesI saw Mr. C’s last name on the board. Was he still alive? No, the first initial didn’t belong to him…He was long gone…The first time I met Mr. C, he was slumped in a chair, unable to move his right leg. Gray speckled […]
Katherine Nanny Naylor was born in England in 1630 and died in Boston in 1715. Around 1650 she married a rich merchant named Robert Nanny, and when he died after a few years of marriage, she married Edward Naylor. Brother Naylor, although rich from trade in the West Indies, was what we might term today […]
Mochaware pottery pieces are centuries old, yet they look as modern as today’s contemporary art pottery. Learn more about this rare American collectible.
Jon Imber spends part of the year in the city and part of the year in a small coastal village, and his art reflects this movement. Imber moves between abstraction and representation about as easily and seamlessly as any painter I know. Jon Imber burst on the Boston art scene in the late 1970s after […]
Winter in New England might be the season you look forward to all year, or it might be the season you endure, but no matter — we’ve got all of the tips, treats, and must-see places to make winter fun all season long. Grab your mittens and let’s go! #1 Build An Igloo Join Dr. […]
Increasingly, New England’s churches aren’t defined by white steeples on village greens, but by evangelical megachurches changing the religious landscape.
When one thinks of Bethlehem, one of course thinks of Christmas. And as in all the Bethlehems around the country (like Connecticut’s, for instance), the post office in Bethlehem, New Hampshire, accommodates literally thousands of people who come every December to have their greeting cards postmarked. But Bethlehem, New Hampshire, once known as Lloyd Hills, […]
Santa Claus will come to town, the herald angels will sing, and the bells will jingle all the way. Those seasonal sounds have been struck in December at Symphony Hall dating back to 1974, when Arthur Fiedler led the Boston Pops. And it starts all over again this December 11 through 28, when the Boston […]
The most wonderful part of winter in New England is Christmas in Vermont. See how three towns – Grafton, Chester, and Woodstock – celebrate their own Christmas in Vermont.
I think I must have been about eight years old the first time I felt the Atlantic Ocean at the Cape call to me. I remember that particular trip so well: the first whiff of the briny air, the turn up a sandy dirt road, and my mother saying, “Listen you can hear the ocean […]
1. Budget gift: New England food baskets. 2. Recipes for budget food gifts from Annie B. Copps’ Today Show video. 3. Plan your menu. Recipes for Side dishes and the turkey. 4. Decorate with nature and color and Matthew Mead ideas. 5. Alone on Thanksgiving? Create a family around the holiday table. 6. Perfect pie […]
A photograph is essentially a split second in time captured on film or digitally, a record of what light revealed for the instant the shutter was open. Most of the time when you’re looking at a photograph, you are seeing something like 1/125th of a second captured from the eternal present as it passes before […]
