We asked architectural writer and longtime New England resident William Morgan to share his choices for the 5 best historic house museums in New England.
cape cod
A sacred fish, Yankee thrift, and Lenten tradition gave us a classic New England dish that’s worth celebrating and reinventing.
Massachusetts
Cape Cop living
Cape Cod sunset
History
Ordeal on Bay Ledge Buoy
Just before a sudden winter squall swamped his 15-foot open boat, the young clammer managed to leap to the comparative safety of the Bay Ledge Buoy. It was the beginning of the longest — and nearly the last — 27 hours of his life. Sunday morning. January 15, began as any working day for […]
Travel
What the Bay Gives
The bountiful waters off Duxbury, Massachusetts, which once fed Pilgrims, today are still home to a thriving ecosystem and abundance of fish. Saquish is a long spit of sand and cobble guarding the entrance to Plymouth Bay. It has a few beach houses, marshes and mudflats, and crazy currents. It’s also Skip Bennett’s favorite place […]
Massachusetts
Foggy Back Yard II
The back yard of those luck enough to have waterfront property on Cape Cod, on a foggy November day.
Massachusetts
Province Lands Sunset
Sunset in Provincetown, Cape Cod MA, in the National Seashore
Connecticut
Race Point Sunset
The Race Point lighthouse is set ablaze by the setting sun. Cape Cod National Seashore, Provincetown Massachusetts.
Gray seals once were all but eliminated from New England waters. Now they attract great white sharks, thousands of tourists; and enrage fishermen, who wish them gone.
RHODE ISLAND FOLIAGE DRIVE Distance: about 40 miles one way Sandwiched between the famed travel destinations of Newport and Cape Cod is a slice of picture-perfect country life reserved for New Englanders in the know. Head southeast from Boston past the working ports of New Bedford and Fall River and you’ll reach a sylvan stretch […]
Massachusetts
Seals on Cape Cod | Photographs
Photographer William Huber spent time in Chatham, Massachusetts, last summer capturing photographs of the gray seals on Cape Cod for a feature story in the magazine. A growing population of these seals have made their home here, with a large concentration on Monomoy Island. The island, which was designated a federal wildlife refuge in 1970, […]
1623 year Myles Standish proposed creating a canal separating Cape Cod from the Massachusetts mainland for safer, more efficient travel 291 years until the canal finally opened:July 29, 1914 600+ number of people who drowned in those shipwrecks Fourteen ThousandGet Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe boats now passing through the […]