In August, the wild blueberry barrens of Down East Maine become a center of production, community, and celebration.
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Bill and Eileen Elliott found their way to self-sufficiency with more than a little help from their vegetable garden. Without precise directions, you’d never find Bill and Eileen Elliott’s house. But with some guidance, you’d find yourself standing before a rustic hand-hewn archway gate, and through that, a curving, colorful path lined with astilbe, geraniums, […]
New England
The New England Alpine Zone Features Early Color
New England has a fantastic variety of habitats and landscapes, from high mountain peaks to lush forest to rocky seacoasts. The ecology of each setting is largely dependent on local variations in climate and soils, and in each environment, plant species compete to fill a niche. Some environments have a rich diversity of species, while […]
Helaine Hughes from the Poison Ivy Removal Company in Greenfield, NH, shares her tips on how to get rid of poison ivy – both in your yard and on your clothes or skin.
This 18th-century former stagecoach stop was also home to the very first indoor privy in the Berkshires town of Hancock, Massachusetts.
Massachusetts
Cape Cod Summer Vacation | Photographs
Each summer, photographer Dominic Casserly’s large, extended family finds its way to a house by a beach, where the pace of life changes, yet everything important stays the same.
The annual Apple Blossom Cotillion in Springfield, Vermont, offers the town’s young people the chance to participate in a seasonal tradition like no other.
Trying to build a new homestead farm, the Hewitts found themselves in a race with nature, one with no clearly defined finish line.
Looking for the best things to do in Rhode Island? You won’t have to look far! Read our picks for the best attractions in Rhode Island for 2016.
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Magazine
Vincent and His Lady
The author has never forgotten a mysterious woman she never met. Vincent was rumpled, his fine gray hair—long, yet thinning—always windblown. He wore a scarf, even in the summertime, as if he were afraid he might catch a cold in his throat. His clothes looked lived-in. You expected that he might smell. But he didn’t. […]
Gardens
The Crazy Orchid Lady
A visit to New England’s most unlikely garden Shelburne Falls, like many of Massachusetts’ hill towns, has a starkness about it in early spring. The surrounding hills may still carry a dusting of snow, the trees have yet to leaf out, and the town’s famed Bridge of Flowers lies dormant. But this artsy former mill […]