TIME ENOUGH FOR many changes to take place has elapsed since the ordination of young Timothy Walker in a blockhouse in the wilderness. There, in 1730, the Reverend John Barnard of Andover, Massachusetts, who had come on horseback over the rough trail to the Plantation of Penny-Cook which he firmly believed to be the former […]
How did this year’s foliage season stack up? Where can you still find peak color? Read on for our 2018 fall foliage recap, in our final post of the season.
A fall day trip to Bristol, Rhode Island, including historic downtown, Colt State Park, the Blithewold Mansion and Gardens, and more!
A collection of images celebrating the wild beauty of Maine’s Acadia National Park from authors and photographers Jerry and Marcy Monkman.
Already a college football phenom, Doug Flutie became a star in 1984 with a Hail Mary pass that many New Englanders still talk about.
When the paper mill that had defined Bucksport, Maine, for eight decades shut down just before Christmas 2014, the town, like others before it, could have withered away. Instead, something else happened.
Five wheelbarrows are scattered haphazardly around a large ground-floor workshop in an eccentric, circular building in the woods just a two-minute walk from Maine’s rocky coastline. None of the wheelbarrows looks like the others, and frankly, none looks much like a wheelbarrow. They’re all handmade, four of them by a man named Bill Coperthwaite. (The […]
From tours of decked-out historic houses to holiday parades and bazaars, these New England holiday events are worth the drive.
A seasonal getaway to this seaside town offers history and the holidays, all wrapped up together.
Rediscovering the amazingly tough New England boiled mitten.
Unlike many of its coastal cousins to the north, Old Saybrook, Connecticut is a worthy fall destination for history, food, and seaside views.
Planning a getaway to Newport, RI? Hotels on the beach are a terrific overnight option in the Ocean State.
