Ready to hop in your car to take in the vibrant colors of fall? Use these driving directions for the best slow drives to see foliage in New England.
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New Hampshire
A Special Place Called ‘Liberty Street’
Have you ever decided to do something that for most of your life you’d never have even dreamed of doing?
When an oil train derailed just over the Maine border in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, it ignited a horrific inferno that took 47 lives and forever changed the community and its people.
Captain Bob Milne’s tours of Connecticut’s Thimble Islands are big on legend, lore, and history—but what he doesn’t tell you also reveals island truths.
The relationship between cats and tulips may seem obscure, but gardeners who are cat lovers would instantly understand…
Magazine
The Pleasures of May
Maybe this month is called “May” because of all the new things that are possible. “A stick, a stone, it’s the end of the road…” so goes the catchy bossa nova song, “The Waters of March,” which lists an inventory of some lovely (and brutal) things unearthed in the torrents of spring. Following March and […]
New Hampshire
Madame Sherri | New Hampshire’s Most Eccentric Resident?
Take a drive down the Gulf Road in West Chesterfield, New Hampshire, some time. It’s an enchanting landscape — horses running through sun-drenched fields, steep green hills dotted with small white houses. Further down the road, you’re enveloped by woods and wetlands. The driving here is somewhat questionable, and you have every right to be […]
Rhode Island
South County, Rhode Island | A Tale of Two Inns
A visit to Westerly in South County, RI, where the Weekapaug Inn and Ocean House offer elegance and comfort in a beautiful New England beach setting.
Firsts are easy: first red-winged blackbird wheeze, first hopping robin, first crocus then daffodil, first surge of emerald grass. The lasts are harder to discern. In August, each time a loon wailed and hermit thrush trilled, I wondered, is this last? Is this? This? Lacking the bubble and fizz of firsts, lasts can have a […]
History
Black Flies | Survival Methods
Spring is killing season in the North Woods — a time when guides, sports, and ordinary folks delight in the murder of millions. Millions of black flies, that is.
Magazine
Town Meeting | A Sign of Spring
[slideshow post_id=”547686″ exclude=”547705″] One hint of spring in Vermont is the unfolding of an aluminum chair. On the second Tuesday in March, shortly after dawn, one chair is assembled, then another, and another, and soon a chorus of aluminum screeching fills gymnasiums and town halls throughout the state, as chairs are passed from hand to […]
It was raining and three o’clock in the morning, August 19, 1955. The sudden roar of a truck in front of the house jarred me awake. I plunged my head deeper into the pillow to smother the sound, but the roaring and grinding got louder. Exasperated, I pounded to the window. What I saw, I […]