The Concord, New Hampshire, bungalow that Matthew and his wife, Jenny, call home is decked out for Christmas. The palette is traditional red and green with white accents. Linen napkins, iridescent cranberry glass, and bright apples grace the dining table. As to flowers, he recommends massing one type — it’s foolproof and often achieves a […]
Customize your holiday table with this simple place setting from Matthew Mead. Before setting the table, Matthew says the most important thing to do is choose a palette. Here, shades of autumn are reflected in amber glass, golden bamboo, Bakelite-handle silverware, and brown transferware with yellow and green pattern accents. (Spode makes a reproduction of […]
Sometime around Thanksgiving, Mary Bevilacqua starts thinking about the Exchange. She decides whom she’ll invite and sends out invitations. She makes up the menu for the meal, and then, most important, she wonders what the cookie will be this year: Lemon snowballs? Nutmeg logs? Chocolate-peppermint bars? The Wellesley Cookie Exchange has been part of Mary’s […]
22 copies of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” (the book) in the library of Dartmouth College, from which author Robert May graduated in 1926 4,000 birds: pre-Thanksgiving population of Maine’s largest turkey farm, aptly named The Turkey Farm 189,000 wild turkeys estimated to live in New England — most thought to be descendants of 31 birds […]
For the past 55 years, Ed and Phyllis Baker, ages 77 and 76 — their three children now away with families of their own — have been living on their 108-acre farm, 105 acres of which are currently for sale (asking $495,000), in the small town of Goshen, New Hampshire. Never heard of Goshen? Well, […]
Remembering a heartwarming holiday edition of “Mary’s Farm,” where Edie Clark reflects on the powers of cooking and friendship.
Craft projects by Matthew Mead Halloween decorations are becoming as prevalent as Christmas lights. Let’s say you want to add a spook-tacular look inside your home. Below are five simple, crafty ideas that will do the trick. Start now for a happy, haunting Halloween. Also, see SLIDESHOW: Outdoor Halloween Decorations Share your ideas for inside […]
JUST EAST OF the traditional pleasures of the Berkshires lies an area known as “the hill towns.” Though often overshadowed by its showier, better publicized neighbors, this region of New England offers the best of both city and country. These hill towns are thick with creative arts, rural beauty, cultural diversity, and great music and […]
Residents of the Newport’s Top of the Hill section feel it is the most heavenly neighborhood. And we recently found out why. For one thing, the Top of the Hill neighborhood is just an easy 10-minute walk to the downtown area with all those wonderful shops and restaurants along the harbor. Then, if you walk […]
From Yankee July 1986 This is about a man called Nuge and his wife Patty and a tiny slice of the Maine wilderness they claimed as their own. For nearly 50 years on Chamberlain Lake their names ran together — Nugenpatty — like one of the melodious Indian names for these waters. It is an […]
Without a school, a year-round island would lose its families, and then its character.
L.L. Bean: 4:48 a.m. It’s nearly 5 a.m. and you’re standing at the gateway to Maine’s North Woods. Well, actually you’re wandering through the hunting and fishing annex of the vast L.L. Bean retail empire in Freeport, joined by bleary-eyed, coffee-fueled hunters who have been driving all night from Connecticut and New York and have […]
