The biggest tourism weekend of the fall in New England has come and gone, and we couldn’t have asked for better weather. Cool mornings, bright warm sunny days, clear skies and endless views were the dominant conditions, and when it did cloud up in Northern New England, the mountains were dusted with the first snow of […]
I‘ve visited the USS Constitution during school vacations, crowded with chattering kids. I once sat in an open gunport, close to the water, during one of her annual turnaround cruises. I’ve seen the venerable frigate from below, when she was in dry dock, and I’ve touched her massive keel. But my most memorable visit of […]
Photo/Art by Annie Graves Light shines brightly on Zaccharias Walker’s house, built in 1691 in Woodbury, Connecticut. We know Zaccharias built it, because the small wooden marker at the corner of this handsome white chunk of Colonial history tells us so. His house has weathered sun, rain, and snow for 325 years, alongside dozens more […]
Early New Englanders invented the Cape Cod house out of necessity, but its charm and ingenuity made it an American icon.
Littleton, New Hampshire, is a White Mountains town where being Pollyanna-happy is part of local lore.
When Maine passed an 1897 bill requiring hunting guides to register with the state, the first license issued went to ‘Fly Rod’ Crosby, a sportswoman and journalist whose natural flair for public relations had helped establish western and northern Maine as outdoor-sports destinations. Cornelia Thurza Crosby was born in Phillips, Maine, on November 10, 1854. […]
View from Hull of both Boston and Graves lighthouses
No other arboretum in North America is so old. Few boast more trees and shrubs gathered from around the globe. Arnold Arboretum, Harvard’s magnificent library of trees, 281 acres between South and Centre streets in Jamaica Plain, has always had two tasks: first, to provide a museum of well-ordered woody plants; second, to provide random […]
At Boston’s Durgin–Park, you take a seat in the restaurant’s original North Market location (today part of Faneuil Hall Marketplace) and enjoy the same kind of meal—pot roast, baked beans, Indian pudding—that diners did when the place first opened in 1827. You may even experience the same sometimes-bawdy, often-sarcastic service that has made Durgin–Park a […]
Well, some of the best medical breakthroughs that came from New England. In a region as rich in medical and scientific history as New England, it’s tough put a limit on the number of monumental breakthroughs, so when we set out to include a few as gifts in our special 80th Anniversary Issue (“80 Gifts New England Gave […]
Sunset fades over Boston, taken from A St. Pier in Hull, MA.
New England Innovations | People and Deeds That Have Inspired a Nation The mosaic-making robot doesn’t have fingers, just a single suction cup that has a sure touch with glass and ceramic tiles. It plucks them from a tray and places them into a 12-inch-by-12-inch grid, creating abstract patterns or recognizable images. Standing next to […]
