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In New Hampshire’s North Country, an old farmer left a legacy unlike any other.
A few years ago, I wrote a short profile of photographer David Brooks Stess for the pages of the July/August 2009 Yankee. Many of the black and white photographs featured in that article are now part of the Blueberry Rakers: Photography by David Brooks Stess exhibition at Portland Museum of Art (through May 19). Though […]
Lobster shacks and a lighthouse, craggy shores and a sand beach, boat-filled harbors and postcard villages: Looping the Pemaquid Peninsula, via Routes 130 and 32, reveals it all. Begin in Damariscotta, just off U.S. Route 1; after breakfast at Chrissy’s, browse the independent specialty and antiques shops and galleries lining Main Street, including the never-to-be-missed […]
Kennebunk, Maine, is the kind of town with a gazebo on the green, friendly locals that nod hello, free downtown parking, and easy access to the beach.
Connecticut
The Sound of Spring on the Connecticut Shoreline
Time stands still in all the best places, but only for so long. As spring melts into Long Island Sound, the villages along the Connecticut shoreline stir and stretch, sloughing off winter’s crust. Midway along the coast, snow lets go of the edges of Hammonasset Beach, and before you know it, town greens up and […]
Roadside Attractions Every spring, Vermont’s 8,700 miles of dirt roads provide surefire entertainment to Green Mountaineers as they watch people from away drive luxury cars on byways that anyone with the common sense of a turnip would think twice about. “It’s drama, comedy, and suspense all at once,” says Elwood Peabody of Turnbuckle, Vermont, who […]
New England
2013 My Hometown Photo Contest Winners
See which images from the My Hometown Photo Contest took top honors.
At a press luncheon on Monday, Marsh 25, the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine previewed the elegant and elemental new Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion which, when it opens on July 13, will make the Colby museum the largest art museum in the state of Maine and one of the premier college art museums in […]
9 out of 10 people enjoy hearing or saying the word “yurt.” I know this based on the research I conducted before spending a night in a yurt on top of Shawnee Peak in Maine. You are probably wondering about the one person who doesn’t enjoy hearing or saying the word “yurt.” What’s his deal? […]
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Mural, Mural on the Wall
In Rhode Island, Gov. Lincoln Chafee, that rarest of all political animals, a liberal Republican turned Independent, has been raising a little private money to beautify the state’s highways with murals by prominent local artists. Last May, a scene of the America’s Cup yacht race designed by North Providence native Anthony Russo was painted on […]
The president’s house at Unity College is no grand Georgian manor in the New England tradition. The walls are bare of ivy, and the portico, such as it is, shades the entrance with corrugated polycarbonate panels and trains morning-glory vines along its vertical wires. Up above, a blaze of solar panels tilt skyward. They encase […]