It’s black fly season again in New England (as if you didn’t already know). Here’s a humorous take on how to survive New England’s perennial spring pest.
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A sampling of don’t-miss national parks and sites in New York, the Canadian Maritimes, and Quebec.
The Nutmeg State has plenty to offer in the Great Outdoors. Read our picks for the best outdoor attractions in Connecticut for 2015. Best Miniature Golf Mini-Golf at Saybrook Point, Old Saybrook If your putting’s not up to par, you’ll love this picture-perfect course, where distracting views of Long Island Sound and shorebirds soaring overhead […]
Magazine
New England’s Secret Season
Welcome to the May 2015 edition of Jud’s New England Journal, the rather curious monthly musings of Judson Hale, the Editor-in-Chief of Yankee Magazine, published since 1935 in Dublin, N.H. New England’s Secret Season It’s not ever mentioned in regional or resort promotional material. Never. All of us New Englanders are very familiar with what’s […]
Massachusetts
An Insider’s Guide to Brimfield
Brimfield, the country’s largest antiques fair, is a treasure seeker’s paradise in south-central Massachusetts, if you know where to go. Our Insider’s Guide to Brimfield map is here to help!
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Featured Brimfield Booths
Never been to the Brimfield Antique Fair? Here’s a sampling of what you can find inside various Brimfield booths.
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Tips and Recommendations from Brimfield Experts
We asked some Brimfield experts–a dealer, a stylist, a designer, a shop owner, even a chef–for their best insider field-survival tips. Brimfield Dates for 2016: May 10 – 15, July 12 – 17, September 6 – 11 The Dealer: Susan Bates 25+-year Brimfield exhibitor I love Quaker Acres. It’s very eclectic, from rustic to high-end. I’ve […]
Renovating an old home is a hero’s quest, a test of stamina and means. Whether you do it yourself or employ a battalion of workers, there’s no getting away cheap. And yet, in the realm of costly hobbies it stands apart as a noble pursuit, a labor of love. Restoration contractors understand the love and […]
Martha Hale Harvey documented the landscapes and people of turn-of-the-century Cape Ann. Among Martha Hale Harvey’s hundreds of photos of Cape Ann life is this portrait of her husband, George Wainwright Harvey (1855–1930), an oil and watercolor artist renowned for his landscape and maritime scenes. Born in Gloucester in 1862, Martha Hale Rogers married her […]
New England
New England’s Small Museums | The Memory Keepers
Can New England’s small museums survive a nation’s short attention span? Can they still bear witness to lives that mattered, to the stories they tell?
Follow aimless paths and carved boulders to Cape Ann’s Dogtown — New England’s most famous abandoned settlement with a checkered past.
Is spring the season to put aside all thoughts of winter, or is now the time we should be thinking about it most of all?