Massachusetts

Greenfield, Massachusetts | Could You Live Here?

At the start of the Mohawk Trail sits Greenfield, Massachusetts, a scrappy combination of old-time New England and forward thinking, the first designated “green community” in the state.

Connecticut

Essex, Connecticut | Could You Live Here?

With a bucolic setting on the Connecticut River and steeped in history and tradition, Essex, Connecticut, was once named the best small town in America.

Magazine

Suited to a T | Timeless New England

Though the novelty of “horseless carriages” had largely worn off by 1914, the sight of Virgil White motoring through Newport, New Hampshire, that February caught the attention of the media. Under a published photo of White’s unusual conveyance, parked on a snowy roadway and filled with bundled-up passengers, was this wry description: “It appears to […]

Magazine

Looking Back on Our Town

Eighty years after Thornton Wilder wrote Our Town, the classic play still lives in the small town of Peterborough, New Hampshire.

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