Heat & Water: The Elms is heated by three boilers. During an average heating season, the mansion uses 8,000 gallons of oil; even the closets are heated via small grates. The estate uses 7,000 gallons of water per month today. Originally, a water-tank room served as a back-up supply (early municipal systems were unreliable); each […]
Millions of dollars from foreign investors are pouring into Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. What that means for the region is anyone’s guess—except that it will never be the same.
Some of the most beautiful things in the natural world are also the most fleeting. A rainbow may last just a moment. The pink light of sunrise, or alpenglow on a mountain lasts but a few minutes longer. Morning mists linger for an hour or so after sunrise, and a winter snowfall may hang in […]
Each covered bridge in America holds the story of its community. When one falls, history vanishes. For 60 years the Gratons – father Milton and son Arnold – have kept covered bridges and their stories alive.
Have you ever wanted to know more about the New England landmarks that pepper the six-state region? Our area is filled with historic sites and manmade masterpieces, from the beautiful to the baffling. Here are a few of our favorites. Don’t ask why–there’s no accounting for taste. CONNECTICUT 1. Boothe Memorial Park & Museum in […]
<!– _ It’s the size and shape of an ice cream truck. And certainly kindles the same enthusiasm, “They’re here!” shout the kids of a North Troy day care, as the big white truck lumbers down their long dirt road. Yet it’s not ice cream sandwiches and popsicles, they’re giddy about, it’s The Lunch Box […]
“Please take out your passports and have them ready for inspection,” Captain Andy Scott announces over the boat’s loudspeaker as we glide right into Canada’s waters on Lake Memphremagog, a 28 -mile lake extending between the state of Vermont and the province of Quebec, Canada. Captain Andy is of course joking, (no passports needed), […]
What you can experience here in the Ocean State, you can’t experience anywhere else in New England—nor in all the world. Here, at the International Tennis Hall of Fame & Museum in Newport, Rhode Island, you may venture where no weed dares to tread, and where legendary tennis greats have volleyed for well over a […]
Yankee Classic Article from March 2000: In which the author discovers an unexpected knack for a medieval game played inside one of Newport, Rhode Island’s most obscure and discreet institutions. I have just hit the nick for the third time, and George Wharton, my instructor in the ancient and royal game of court tennis, is […]
Explore Wickford, Rhode Island — home to the annual summer Wickford Art Festival — with its historic homes, scenic harbor, shopping, and more! You must love a harbor specked with sailboats, embrace dogs of every nation, and enjoy strolling through the 1700s—or the charms of Wickford, Rhode Island will elude you. If, however, such things […]
Patriotism and gratitude for the nation’s service members are on full display at this longstanding 4th of July Celebration (since 1785!).
Rochambeau Monument at Kings Park in Newport RI
