Now in its 20th year, Lighthouse Depot in Wells, Maine, offers two full floors of everything and anything associated with lighthouses. (There’s also a new branch store in Rockland, plus a thriving mail-order business.) Service jackets? Check. Kitschy earrings? Yep. Requisite coffee mugs? Of course. “Artistically sculpted” toilet handles? Why not? Plus furnishings, books, DVDs, […]
Lighthouses Slide Shows Photos of New England Lighthouses Great Online Resource Visit Jeremy D’Entremont’s New England Lighthouses: A Virtual Guide at lighthouse.cc for history, photos, stats, access info, and more. Lighthouse Magazine Published 11 times a year, Lighthouse Digest is the only publication in the world devoted strictly to — you guessed it — lighthouses. […]
The tradition of Old Home Days began in 1897 in New Hampshire and still goes on every summer across New England. Parades, ball games, and band concerts are the order of the day, while new folks get acquainted and returning folks reconnect with their communities. Read more: Old Home Days: A New England Tradition Here’s […]
Robert Indiana will be upstaging the late, great Andrew Wyeth as the featured attraction at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, this summer as Robert Indiana and the Star of Hope (through October 25) brings the artist’s collection of his own work ashore from the island of Vinalhaven. The Star of Hope is the […]
There are times when being there beats getting there by a long shot. We want our foliage vistas, and we want them now — so, onward and upward, in our cars. Herewith, a rundown of nine New England mountain summits attainable by auto road. Some are among the region’s loftiest and most majestic mountains; others […]
As fitting summer fare, the Portland, Maine, Museum of Art and the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut, have teamed up to produce Call of the Coast: Art Colonies of New England, an exhibition of 74 paintings and prints by 48 of the artists who flocked to the coastal art colonies of Old Lyme, […]
There is an old farmhouse on the edge of the town where I live that has stood forlorn and empty for as long as I can remember. It’s shabby, but it has, as architects are wont to say, “good bones.” Sometimes I think I’d like to buy it and fix it up. Other times I […]
My father used to pay me a penny for every dandelion that I dug up out of his lawn. He was a post-war suburban homeowner, anxious to remove those blights from the carpet of green he worked so hard to create. His penny could not be had without the entire root of the plant. Just […]
ATTRACTIONS Best Store to Woof About: PLANET DOG, Portland Portland earns kudus as a dog-friendly town, and Planet Dog (motto: “Think globally. Act doggedly.”) earns raves for its environmentally friendly pet products (check out the Orbee-Tuff Ball), commitment to animal causes, and pet programs. 211 Marginal Way. 207-347-8606; planetdog.com Best Chance to Land Dinner: LUCKY […]
ATTRACTIONS Best Rainy-Day Walk: ROGER WILLIAMS PARK BOTANICAL CENTER, Providence New England’s largest garden conservatory is still expanding its outdoor displays, but its 12,000 square feet of indoor tropical and subtropical plants, complete with palm trees, waterfalls, orchids, cacti, and many other exotic blooms and fragrances, transport visitors to a southern paradise. 1000 Elmwood Ave. […]
LODGING Best Place for Pampering:MORNING GLORY INN, York Say hello to your new best friends in York, Bill and Bonnie Alstrom, innkeepers at the Morning Glory Inn. They’ll open their home to you, cook your breakfast, advise on sightseeing and activities, and keep the garden blooming, all for your comfort and pleasure. This small inn […]
DINING Best Catch: FISHERMAN’S CATCH, Wells It’s completely understandable why locals would rather keep the Cardinali family’s off-the-beaten-path chowder and fish joint a secret. This salt-marsh-view restaurant is renowned for its light, crispy, fresh fried fish as well as for its generous lobster rolls–but don’t even think about skipping dessert. The freshly baked blueberry pie […]
