Behind the romance of curling woodsmoke, being a logger is one tough profession. Our wood chart shows you the relative heat values of New England’s fuel woods. You see the woodpiles everywhere around here, tidy rows covered by old corrugated roofing panels, sprawling jumbles beneath blue plastic tarps, glimpses of neatly stacked cordwood on back […]
New England’s style genius, Matthew Mead, creates a sparkling new look for decorating for the holidays, from tabletops to mantels, to staircase. Love of nature and a passion for colorful china and glassware are the essential ingredients in Matthew’s elegant style. Follow his tips to make this season one that friends and family will never […]
Get your landscaping ready for New England’s bitter months by reading our tips to prepare your garden for winter. Our canna lilies and dahlias bloomed fabulously this summer, but I understand they’re not hardy enough to survive our winter outdoors. What do you recommend? — D.C., Antrim, NH Cannas, dahlias, elephant ears (Colocasia), gladiolus, caladium, […]
Industrialization, the advent of electricity, and the closing of the frontier provoked a national identity crisis at the end of the 19th century. Nostalgia for the simpler America of the Founding Fathers led to a movement known as the Colonial Revival. This Windsor-style chair, which is made from old flax wheels, typifies the desire to […]
Just in time for another jam-packed holiday season, supermarket shelves are lined with big, fat turkeys. You could grab one of these birds for only 99 cents a pound — but that won’t buy you much flavor. This year, we recommend tracking down a free-range turkey from a local farm. Why, when price and convenience […]
Flat. It’s a word not often associated with beauty or talent. Rather, it conjures up far less remarkable images: flat tire; flat broke; flat as a pancake. But in the world of folk art portraiture, flatness is so desirable, even transcendent, that it practically defines the genre itself. Folk art portraiture, often called “naive” portraiture, […]
Rajiv Kumar Chairman, Adopt a Doctor Providence, Rhode Island When 24-year-old Rajiv Kumar shares his memories of Mali, his eyes light up and his hands fly: the locals’ joyous spirit, the amazing music, feeling safe in the village, being treated like family. This West African nation is one of the world’s poorest countries, ravaged by […]
Patricia Franchi Flaherty Founder, Ovations for the Cure Natick, Massachusetts Every woman knows new shoes are a powerful kind of therapy. “They’re good medicine,” says Patti Franchi Flaherty. Her feet sparkle in a pair of mesh jelly flats, Stuart Weitzman originals. Thanks to Patti’s foundation, Ovations for the Cure, every ovarian cancer patient gets a […]
Read more about Norman Rockwell See video of Norman Rockwell’s Studio Look out the front windows of the inn and there’s the red covered bridge, the white Gothic-steepled church, and the Battenkill Grange, all lined up like something Norman Rockwell would have painted. Actually, he did — and this 215-year-old Vermont farmhouse is where Rockwell […]
22 copies of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” (the book) in the library of Dartmouth College, from which author Robert May graduated in 1926 4,000 birds: pre-Thanksgiving population of Maine’s largest turkey farm, aptly named The Turkey Farm 189,000 wild turkeys estimated to live in New England — most thought to be descendants of 31 birds […]
Wrong Target Edie Clark’s bucolic view of country life is certainly charming, but she should have been fretting more about the wandering black bovine eating poisonous pigweed or getting hit by a car rather than getting shot by a hunter [“Raging Bull,” September/October, p. 14]. Encouraging the stereotype of the bumbling and dangerous “Elmer Fudd”-type […]
Our dog, Teddy is priceless because he is a unique animal, and because through a lot of nurturing and love, he has grown to trust us, and to return that love. From owning several dogs now, I believe each dog is a unique creature. They may not have awareness or intellect, but it is clear […]
