The wildly beautiful Maine Peninsulas invite ambling and stopping, so it’s so surprise that they’re also home to many wonderful places to eat, shop, and stay.
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The wildly beautiful Maine Peninsulas invite ambling and stopping … And returning again and again.
Photographer Markham Starr captured one of the last days of operation at the Stinson Sardine cannery in Prospect Harbor, ME, ending more than 100 years of local history.
Five years after the devastation of 2011’s Tropical Storm Irene, those who lived through it in Wilmington, Vermont, remember both what they lost and what they found.
After decades of whispers, our analyst puts the Nutmeg State on the couch for a little identity therapy. Is Connecticut really New England? We think you’ll approve of the answer.
Two intrepid photographers trekked hut-to-hut across Presidential Range in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, discovering hardship, pain, beauty, and wonder along the way.
The Best 5 Farm Inns
It takes an open mind to stay at a working farm—a willingness to embrace both the peace of your surroundings and the unpredictability of each day’s developments. What happens on a farm 365 days a year is largely unscripted and exhilaratingly real. You don’t have to get your hands dirty, but this is your chance […]
The Sounds of Summer 2016 | Out & About
Rhode Island Newport Folk Festival July 22–24 Since 1959, the Newport Folk Festival has held a unique place in America’s musical and cultural history, including as a hub for the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and as the site of Bob Dylan’s famous switch to electric guitar in 1965. Iconic performers like Joan Baez, […]
From a little red shack by the side of the road, Flo’s Hot Dogs in Cape Neddick, Maine serves some of New England’s most worth-the-wait franks.
In August, the wild blueberry barrens of Down East Maine become a center of production, community, and celebration.
It was built some 200 years ago on an island (accessible by a bridge) in one of the oldest and most desirable summer communities on the Maine coast … One rather chilly spring day a couple of months ago, we decided to mosey “down east.” After a short visit to L.L. Bean in Freeport (how […]
Bill and Eileen Elliott found their way to self-sufficiency with more than a little help from their vegetable garden. Without precise directions, you’d never find Bill and Eileen Elliott’s house. But with some guidance, you’d find yourself standing before a rustic hand-hewn archway gate, and through that, a curving, colorful path lined with astilbe, geraniums, […]