A rural barn in Dracut, Massachusetts on a winter evening
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Eating locally should also mean embracing traditional regional food. Find 15 eras of authentic New England flavor at these favorite eateries.
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Newburyport, Massachusetts | It’s a Wonderful Life
Snow blows off the harbor at Newburyport, Massachusetts, carrying whispers of clipper ships. They glide in from the Atlantic, these ghosts from the past, weary from the West Indies, laden with molasses destined to become rum. Soften your eyes, and you can almost see them. From the Gold Coast, from Lisbon, they sail home to […]
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Salisbury Sunrise
While vacationing with my family on our yearly trip to Salisbury Massachusetts I decided to take an early morning walk on the beach and this beautiful sunrise is something I not only witnessed but captured and shall never forget
On the first day of 1802, the residents of Cheshire, Massachusetts, presented Thomas Jefferson with perhaps the oddest gift ever offered to a U.S. president — a stupendous cheese weighing 1,235 pounds. A local paper reported how the event came about. “The old dairy town, in a triumphant mass meeting, resolved to put its curds […]
Pets love to nest, and making a practical, comfortable bed for your dog or cat is fun and easy: Just add wooden knob feet to an old drawer and line it with a plush handcrafted pillow and fiber-filled bumper. Materials to Make a DIY Pet Bed 1 cast-off drawer with knobs sandpaper primer wood glue […]
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Race Point Sunset
The Race Point lighthouse is set ablaze by the setting sun. Cape Cod National Seashore, Provincetown Massachusetts.
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The Lure of a Simpler Life
If someone offered you a simpler life, would you take it? I did once. It was just before the birth of my son and I was working as a reporter for a daily newspaper in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The hours were unpredictable and the work was frustrating at best (covering territorial politics is a […]
On one December weekend each year, locals and visitors alike step inside a Norman Rockwell painting come to life in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
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New England Fall Foliage Largely Past Peak
As the calendar flips to November, we find that New Engand’s fall foliage has move past peak across about ninety-five percent of the region’s reach. Varying degrees of lingering color certainly still catch the eye, but so too did the beautiful crescent moon setting between the bare trees across my yard last night. It’s a […]
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Autumn Color Lingers Along The New England Coast
Over the course of an otherwise bright and beautiful day Sunday this past weekend, a gusty northwest breeze slowly stripped my neighbor’s beautiful flame-orange maple down to its winter skeleton. It was the brightest I had seen this particular tree in years, but its maximum glow lasted only a few short days. It is how […]
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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.