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The Last Explorer

Christina Tree’s travel writing has shown New England to the world. And after 50 years, she’s still hitting the road in search of new adventures because, as she puts it, “I never wanted to be left behind.”

New England

New England’s Best Food Towns

by Hannah Palmer Egan When people think about food in New England, they inevitably conjure rolling fields, farm-to-table restaurants, and seaside shellfish shacks. Of course, you will find those here, sprinkled throughout the Northeast’s gentle mountains and rugged coastlines. And the region’s small cities — Providence, Portland, Cambridge, and Burlington, among others — are well known for […]

New Hampshire

A Perfect Weekend in New Hampshire’s Lakes Region

WHAT TO DO Mount Washington Cruises, Laconia If you don’t own a boat, now you can pretend you have three: $175 buys an unlimited daytime season pass on the 230-foot Mount Washington, the 68-foot Doris E., and the Sophie C. mail boat, all cruising Lake Winnipesaukee, the state’s largest lake. Mountain ranges encircle the 71-square-mile expanse that’s yours to […]

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Yankee Classic | The Day Kurt Newton Disappeared

The Newton family was camping at Coburn Gorge in northern Maine over Labor Day weekend in 1975 when Kurt, age 4, disappeared. What followed has been termed “the most extensive woods search in the history of Maine.” But all the thousands of volunteer searchers ever found were unanswered questions.

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