General Information & Advocacy American Lyme Disease Foundation, Lyme, CT Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases, Atlanta, GA Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, CT. 203-974-8485 (Tick Management Handbook)Get Our FREE Yankee Food Award Gift Guide! Email(Required) Greater Hartford Lyme Disease Support & Action Group, Farmington, CT Lyme Disease Association […]
14 Maine communities boasting dog-friendly beaches: Bar Harbor, Biddeford, Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, Kittery, Ogunquit, Old Orchard Beach, Portland, Saco, Scarborough, South Portland, Stockton Springs, Wells, and York 6 number of the nation’s 28 most important estuaries that are located in New England 1,530 weight in pounds of a shortfin mako shark harpooned 13 miles off the […]
A bud vase is typically used to showcase one beautiful blossom. With Suzanne Tanner’s coin bud vases, it should be the other way around — pick a flower to show off her beautiful handblown glass. Each teardrop shape, about 6 inches tall, highlights variations of color (blue, light green, green, violet, pink, or clear) and […]
American Lyme Disease Foundation, Lyme, CT. aldf.com Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/lyme/index.htm Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, CT. 877-855-2237, 203-974-8500; caes.state.ct.us (Tick Management Handbook)Get Our FREE Yankee Food Award Gift Guide! Email(Required) Lyme Disease Foundation, Tolland, CT. lyme.org Time for Lyme Inc., Greenwich, CT. timeforlyme.org University of Rhode Island Tick […]
The Lucy’s Hearth 6th Annual Designer Wreath Sale will be held Saturday, December 2, from 9 to 1 at the Rotunda ballroom at Easton’s Beach in Newport, Rhode Island. For more information about the sale or to find out more about the wreath-making workshops, visit lucyshearth.org or call 401-847-2021.
Christmas lights twinkle in a greenhouse in Tiverton, Rhode Island. People haul unwieldy stacks of evergreens from car trunks and the backs of pickups and station wagons through the frosty night. The greenhouse at Manchester Tree & Landscaping pulsates with conviviality while pruning shears snap to the Supremes’ Christmas Collection. It is the night of […]
New England has a lot to offer outdoor enthusiasts, and bike trails are near the top of the list. From quiet country roads to old railroad beds, the region is ripe for those wanting to get out of the car and explore the land by bike. To provide with you some of the best rides […]
$71,000 amount generated by traffic tickets last year in Brighton, Vermont (pop. 1,200). Can you say “speed trap”? 4,180 cows now enrolled in Vermont’s “Cow Power” program, producing enough methane to power 1,229 Vermont homes 250 works of art in the permanent collection of the Museum of Bad Art (MOBA), located in Dedham, MA 216 […]
It’s not possible to freeze old people in the beginning of winter, store them outside, almost naked, and then thaw them out in time to help with the spring planting. Is it? Well, in 1939, a Dr. Temple S. Fay of Philadelphia, who had done some experiments freezing human organs, gave a talk in Providence, […]
NEW ENGLANDERS WERE always so stuffy about love, sex, and romance, how come it was commonly approved practice for young couples to go to bed together before they were married? And also, more surprisingly, to get married in the nude? Both are true. Young New England unmarried boys and girls would indeed go to bed […]
From Colonial, Georgian, and Federal to Greek Revival and Victorian, here’s a guide to New England architecture for the roadside historian.
