Planning a Connecticut vacation, day trip, or getaway? From dining and lodging to attractions that are well worth the drive, here are nearly 30 of our editors’ picks for the best of Connecticut.
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Massachusetts
Best of Massachusetts | 2018 Editors’ Choice Awards
Planning a Massachusetts vacation, day trip, or getaway? From dining and lodging to attractions that are well worth the drive, here are nearly 30 of our editors’ picks for the best of Massachusetts.
New England
Dear Yankee | March 2018
Point and Counterpoint In your article “Rising Seas” [March/April], professor John Anderson of College of the Atlantic refers to an assumed sea level rise of six feet by the end of the century. This is based on some “model.” A six-foot rise means that all of lower Manhattan in New York and Fenway Park in […]
New England
2018 Editors’ Picks for Food Lovers
From ice cream to fine dining, here are some of our favorite ideas for foodies in New England.
Years of trial and error gardening with flowers and shrubs, berries and vegetables, has taught this acclaimed gardening writer one thing: her land has a mind of its own.
New England
New England’s Best Food Towns
by Hannah Palmer Egan When people think about food in New England, they inevitably conjure rolling fields, farm-to-table restaurants, and seaside shellfish shacks. Of course, you will find those here, sprinkled throughout the Northeast’s gentle mountains and rugged coastlines. And the region’s small cities — Providence, Portland, Cambridge, and Burlington, among others — are well known for […]
A couple of years ago, I was on assignment in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. The focus of my visit was the hilly hamlet of Greensboro, which is small even by northern New England’s standards. But oh, what a place for lingering. I meandered up and down the aisles of Willey’s, an everything-under-the-sun kind of store that […]
The Newton family was camping at Coburn Gorge in northern Maine over Labor Day weekend in 1975 when Kurt, age 4, disappeared. What followed has been termed “the most extensive woods search in the history of Maine.” But all the thousands of volunteer searchers ever found were unanswered questions.
Lightly sweetened with maple syrup and molasses, these homemade baked beans are warming, flavorful, and (best of all) easy to make in the slow cooker.
New England
Jack McConnell’s Winter in New England | Photos
A collection of images celebrating the beauty of winter in New England from Connecticut-based photographer Jack McConnell.
New England
The 5 Best New England Waterfalls
New England is an ideal place to chase waterfalls (there are more than 100 in New Hampshire alone). Each time a river or stream takes a tumble as it races across this geologically diverse region, it drums its own calming white noise and makes a visual splash. At their most vigorous in the spring, when […]
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Team for the Ages
“That’s a lousy shot, Lou.” “I know,” responds University of Connecticut All-American Katie Lou Samuelson. “It started with a lousy pass,” adds coach Geno Auriemma, who uses a saltier word for lousy. “C’mon, guys. You can move. You can’t be standing around waiting for passes.”Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe […]