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Glass to Last

You can view the glasswork of David and Jennifer Clancy at clancydesigns.com. Their studio is located at 382 North Road in Jamestown, Rhode Island. They have stock for sale and also do custom designs. “If the studio door is open, we’re in,” says David. But it’s wise to call ahead, as hours vary. 401-423-1615.

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Glass artists Jennifer and David Clancy

Happy is the miller who lives near the mill. So reads the script swirling over the mantel in this 1787 cottage that sits in the shadows of one of the few remaining historic windmills in Rhode Island. David Clancy and his wife, Jennifer, subscribe to the same philosophy. “Our daily commute is like his,” says […]

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Corn Mazes in New England

Have you been to a corn maze? Bring a sense of adventure and get ready to laugh, scream, and have fun at these New England fall farm features. Visit, for example, Marini Farms in Ipswich, Massachusetts, where an 8-acre, interactive Maze Quest opens September 12 with clues via 3-D glasses and text messages. The maze […]

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3. Nibble on This

Yum — candy apples at Jaswell’s Farm (401-231-9043; jaswellsfarm.com) in Smithfield, Rhode Island. It’s right in the heart of “apple country” and has made these crunchy delights a specialty. Eight choices, including traditional cherry-red candy-coated, caramel fruits, and blue raspberry candy-coated.

Food

Summer Vegetable Recipes | Corn, Leeks and Squash

A collection of fun and easy summer vegetable recipes that put the flavor of the season’s harvest on your table. Nurtured all summer long and tended to perfection, piles of red and yellow tomatoes in every shape and size await your inspection. Neat stacks of white and golden corn nestled in silk … hard-shelled squashes […]

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Toot Your Own Horn

When Skip Healy was a child, he often visited the grounds of Rhode Island’s Varnum House Museum (with its extensive military and naval history collection) to sit on a stone bench and play his fife. Today, he’s the curator and runs a fife- and flute-making shop in the carriage house. “Fifes and pipes are the […]

History

New England by the Numbers | State Facts

20 percentage of Vermont’s trees that are sugar maples — explaining in part the golden-orange and red hues of the state’s foliage season 107 number of years that Louis’ Lunch in New Haven, Connecticut — oldest burger joint in America — has been cooking hamburgers 2 Babe Ruth’s favorite room at the Cranmore Mountain Lodge […]

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Performance Adornment

Diana Hall of Rumford, Rhode Island, is a sailor, jeweler, and daughter of a carbon-fiber mast maker. Now she turns carbon fiber into pendants, bracelets, rings, earrings, and cuff links. Our favorite is this round pendant ($130), trimmed and backed by sterling silver and hung on a snake chain or neck wire. A big seller […]

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Rhode Island in Foliage Season

Okay, her palette is more subdued. But like her big New England sisters, our state also dresses up for autumn. Preferring not to flaunt her charms, Little Rhody holds them close. No mountainsides streaming red, maybe, but layers of rich color that warrant up-close inspection are what you’ll find here. In the southern part of […]

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University Art Museums in New England

Massachusetts Harvard University Art Museums Three museums for the price of one: the Fogg Art Museum, which holds one of America’s finest collections of Impressionist and post-Impressionist work; the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, famous for its unparalleled assortment of ancient, Islamic, Asian, and later Indian art; and the Busch-Reisinger Museum, the only museum in the […]

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Sure, It’s Only 47 Miles Long, But…

Welcome to the July 2007 Edition of Jud’s New England Journal, the rather curious monthly musings of Judson Hale, editor-in-chief of Yankee Magazine, published for over 70 years in Dublin, New Hampshire.Sure, It’s Only 47 Miles Long, But…… don’t get Rhode Islanders started on the subject of their state. That is, unless you have plenty […]

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10 Best Beaches in New England

Where can you find the best beaches in New England? From best surfing to to most scenic, we break down the beaches that are the best in the region.