They’re an unlikely pairing for immortality together: Alfred Eisenstaedt, a German-born photographer who roamed New York with his Leica for Life magazine, and George Mendonça, a young sailor, just back from World War II, who was raised in a Rhode Island fishing family and would soon return to that life. In a Times Square instant […]
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Ken Burns | New England’s Gifts
For five nights in September 1990, Americans watched, transfixed, Ken Burns’s PBS series The Civil War. We had never seen the conflict through eyes as compassionate and as cinematic as the film Burns had created from his Walpole, New Hampshire, studio. His war was about not just battles, but also ordinary people swept up in […]
When the townspeople of Craftsbury, Vermont, hang out at the general store, the line blurs between “store” and “story,” a scenario little changed since America’s first country store opened in Adamsville, Rhode Island, in 1788. Little more than a century has passed since folks hitched horses off the porch and rambled into the Craftsbury General Store […]
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Ghost Tours of Newport | Gilded Ghosts
Newport, Rhode Island. This coastal beauty is one of New England’s most frequented tourist destinations, famous worldwide for its Cliff Walk, sandy beaches, and of course, the Newport Mansions. Its gilded facade is not to be taken at face value, though, for it may mask a much darker, much spookier aspect of the city. Being the […]
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Out & About | October 2015
Come fall, most people think of New England as the place to go for spectacular leaf peeping. And they do come in droves. But as the season winds down and the tourists go home, New Englanders are left more or less to ourselves for another favorite autumn tradition: scaring the heck out of each other. […]
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Ship Shape
For the shipwrights at Mystic Seaport, a way of life sails on.
Did New England invent leaf peeping as a destination? Perhaps. Here’s a look at our favorite foliage season musts — our “7 Wonders of Fall.”
A summer visit to Narragansett, Rhode Island, featuring Rudy, the adventurous New England dog. Join him as he takes in the sights, sounds, and tastes of this coastal Ocean State town. It was a hot one. But dreamy just the same… Rhode Island had long been on Rudy’s bucket list. “Small state, small dog—it’s a […]
Think you’ve missed peak foliage? Think again. Fall color unfolds across New England for weeks, making it easier than you might expect to catch spectacular scenery. Here’s why you shouldn’t stress about perfect timing.
How do you go about choosing the twenty-five best beach towns in New England? It wasn’t easy, but we can guarantee that regardless of your personal criteria, there’s a beach town for you on our list.
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Kickemuit River
Summer, late afternoon on the Kickemuit River in Bristol, Rhode Island .
Celebrating the historic Samuel E. Perry Grist Mill in Rhode Island, the joy of jonnycakes, and the couple who loves them.