Its crop is no longer making its way to the Caribbean, but at the Thompson Ice House in South Bristol, Maine, the passing of another New England winter is marked, as it has been for centuries, with an ice harvest.
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New England
10 Best Winter Towns in New England
Looking for the best winter towns in New England? These 10 destination towns prove warmth is where you find it, both outside and indoors.
Main Dishes
Top 10 Diner Dishes in New England
New England’s many diners keep us warm each winter by serving up hearty Yankee comfort food. See our picks for the Best Diner Dishes in New England.
New England
Best Diners in New England
New England is the birthplace of the American diner. It’s also where diners and diner cuisine have developed most fully over the years. From the lunch wagons of 1870s Providence, Rhode Island, to the gleaming steel-and-glass palaces of today, New England diners have long served as community gathering places, offering comfort food at affordable prices […]
271 estimated travel time in minutes between Boston and Montreal if the high-speed New England rail corridor is ever built. Driving between the two cities, under ideal conditions, takes about 320 minutes. 5,000 cars caught on camera running red lights during a six-month-long study in 2005 in Auburn and Lewiston, Maine. Not surprisingly, the two […]
New Hampshire
Portsmouth, NH: A Timeless Christmas
Christmases past and present blend seamlessly in downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Walking along the brick sidewalks recently dusted with snow, it’s easy to picture the streets filled with horse-drawn buggies and carolers carrying lanterns.I love to walk along the Piscataqua River, past tugboats strung with Christmas lights. Prescott Park features views of the rushing river […]
Magazine
Adoption Resources in New England
More than 6 million Americans are adoptees; surveys indicate that at least half of them search for a birth parent’s identity at some point in their lives. Laws governing an adoptee’s degree of access to his or her original birth certificate and adoption file vary from state to state. From the 1920s until the 1970s, […]
January 1 1904. L Street Brownies take their first plunge into the frigid waters of South Boston’s Dorchester Bay, beginning a tradition that still continues. January 3 1920. Boston Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sells Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees. January 5 1643. First divorce granted in the American Colonies. January 6 1994. […]
History
The Yankee Datebook
January 1 1904. L Street Brownies take their first plunge into the frigid waters of South Boston’s Dorchester Bay, beginning a tradition that still continues. January 2 Women ski and ride Okemo Mountain in Ludlow, Vermont, all day for just $39. Also Jan. 9, 16, and 30. 800-786-5366, 802-228-4041; okemo.com January 3 1920. Boston Red […]
New England
Best 5 New England Restaurants with Fireplaces
Firelight is a time machine. Gaze into the swirling flames, feel the natural warmth radiating, hear the crackle of the wood releasing its energy, and you’re teleported to an age when fire—like food and drink—was a basic necessity. We’re comforted by the way a fireplace transforms a powerful force into a soul-soothing escape from the […]
New England
10 Best Winter Towns in New England
Looking for the best winter towns in New England? These 10 destination towns prove warmth is where you find it, both outside and indoors.
Massachusetts
A Perfect Weekend In (Greater) Boston
Can you get the full Boston experience in one weekend? Probably not. But that’s okay. It just means you’ll have to make a return visit.