A new generation of Cape Cod chefs are serving locally sourced food in creative new ways. Learn where to find some of the best Cape Cod farm-to-table restaurants.
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The L.C. Bates Museum, a “museum of a museum” in Hinckley, Maine, holds a world of wonder within its unassuming walls.
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Harvesting Fall Pleasures in Sturbridge, Massachusetts
The town of Sturbridge, Massachusetts, is a perfect choice for families, couples, or groups of friends looking for a fall getaway.
Not sure which is the best type of Christmas tree for you? Our list of favorite New England Christmas tree species is here to help.
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Dreams and Observations
by The Collector THE EDITOR OF THIS department has been as badly bitten by the collecting bug as any other true Yankee, though his special field is not mentioned in the trade magazines. He doesn’t know Stoddard glass from Keene pottery, but he is a specialist in his line. Nose a-twitch and ears cocked like […]
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America Takes Up Forestry
by Lawrence Rathbun IN THE BEGINNING America was a forest, and the finest for the use of man to be found in the world. Her trees furnished the first raw materials for permanent settlement; fence posts and rails, rough logs, and planks. By 1631 a little mill at the mouth of the Piscataqua River in […]
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Textiles
by Percival S. Howe Jr. FROM ITS EARLIEST days New Hampshire’s development and prosperity have been dependent in large measure upon its water power and its forests, for industry sought out sites upon its rivers, and from its forests have grown the lumber industry. In the past decade, however, industry in the State has not […]
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Agriculture
by Hon. Andrew L. Felker GLADYS HASTY CARROLL in her story “As the Earth Turns” gives a delightful glimpse of rural New England life as if it was lived and enjoyed in the good old “horse and buggy days”; as one thrifty old New Hampshire Yankee termed them, “The Pod Auger days.” While one would […]
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Where to Stay in Jackson, New Hampshire | Hotels & Inns
Intimate inns, cozy B&Bs and one grand hotel are just a few of the many lodging options at this popular White Mountains resort town. Get our picks for Jackson, New Hampshire, hotels.
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Aunt Betsy, Aunt Luce, Uncle Ely
As told by Herbert F. Nichols When I was a boy and used to come here—when I first come here Aunt Betsy and Aunt Luce was both alive. Betsy was really the drudge of the family—she went out and helped Uncle Ely hay—he had a wife before her and Aunt Lucy Upton. Her father cleared […]
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Main Street Boyhood
by George Stewart MAIN STREET BOYHOOD. By George Stewart.—In contrast with the boyhoods of those whose parents remained in the East—of those who are growing up now in a planned economy—this article presents a lively, rugged interest. The author, now minister of the First Presbyterian Church in Stamford, Connecticut, summers in Harrisville, N. H. OUR […]
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The Story of New Hampshire’s Capital
TIME ENOUGH FOR many changes to take place has elapsed since the ordination of young Timothy Walker in a blockhouse in the wilderness. There, in 1730, the Reverend John Barnard of Andover, Massachusetts, who had come on horseback over the rough trail to the Plantation of Penny-Cook which he firmly believed to be the former […]