At some point, if you are skier/rider, you are going to need to give someone a ski house gift. I love this one. Artist Kristen Anderson of Crested Butte, Colorado, creates light switch plates using vintage ski posters. For New England fans, she sells switch plates for Mad River Glen, Cannon, Ski New Hampshire, Ski […]
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Sunday River Ski Resort Opens First in East
Sunday River in Bethel, Maine, won the honor of first ski area to open in the East with one trail and one lift turning yesterday, October 14. This is the third year in a row they’ve opened first. They plan to remain open through the weekend, then close temporarily mid-week. Here are some prospective opening […]
Ordinarily when a property comes up for sale, maybe the owners are sad about it, but everyone else simply takes it in stride. Not so when Al and Irene Jenks put out an e-mail saying that they intended to sell their 308-acre property in New Ipswich, New Hampshire (about 25 miles west of Nashua). There […]
New Hampshire
Restaurant Review: Bedford Village Inn
New Hampshire’s Bedford Village Inn–the renovated circa-1790 Gordon family farmhouse and barn and the mid-18th-century Woodbury Cottage–is ready for you if turning on the oven isn’t part of your plans this season. In June, executive chef Peter Agostinelli was already on the phone with his “bird lady,” making sure that the 450 pounds (give or […]
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Orange, NH: The Town Party
Read more: Small-Town Holiday Celebrations There are layers in every town that touch and connect its residents. Ritual, communal gathering, collective memory: In the New Hampshire town where I live, those layers are almost visible in our annual town Christmas party. I think of them most strongly at the end of the party, when, by […]
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Here in New England: Hard Work
When strangers taste Nancy Brown’s balsamic vinaigrette, they know it’s special. What they don’t know is just how special.
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Best Snow Resorts for Families
The first wave of ski excitement started appearing a few weeks ago. It’s usually inspired by the change of season (summer to fall), or the first big drop in temperature (how can 40 feel so cold), or the first, however-slight-it-may-be, dusting of snow (last week in the mountains), or the first ski area opening (Loveland […]
Paul Wainwright’s photographs of New England meetinghouses are caretakers of memory and history.
Project: Antiqued Kitchen Island Jack Kurilla’s craftsmanship is about perfection. As a high-end cabinetmaker in the small southern New Hampshire town of Dublin, Kurilla needs his work to be flawless. But when it came to building a new kitchen island for his own home, he took a different tack. Wood knots, splits, and seams? He […]
Food
Best Cook: Cookies
Our Best Cook, Nori Odi, is preparing Christmas cookies. Her industrious kitchen in Greenfield, New Hampshire, is filled with the aroma of rich maple. Nori lives here with her husband, David Gilmore, better known as “Rags.” Rags is a software engineer, a career that Nori once shared. But now it’s all about food, although the […]
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Lowell, MA: Poet Paul Marion
Mr. Alphonse Hudon, / wearing a blue parka and dress hat, / leans on his cane on Pawtucket Street, / checking the freshly tarred walk / and grove of short pines / along the Northern Canal. / “Looks good, doesn’t it?” I ask. / And he says, “I liked it better the way it was,” […]
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Pairings
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