As I’ve said before in this space, sometimes a theme emerges in an issue, unexpectedly, as if it’s been hiding in plain sight. Only when I read the entire issue again, on the first weekend of this new year, did I find this one: the people and places we pass by each day without really […]
A city boy explains the enduring appeal of his sister’s Maine homestead. “You’re obviously playing the long game,” I tell my brother-in-law, Peter, after we spend an hour strolling around what he and my sister, Rebekah, consider their “forest farm”: a third of an acre of southern Maine woodland on which they’ve planted chestnuts, hazelnuts, […]
Mountains, snow, and fun await visitors in this prized New Hampshire region.
New Hampshire’s thriving Nordic ski scene owes a debt to the visionaries who saw the future and worked to make it happen. It takes courage—and a good dose of blind optimism—to see the hilly, rock-filled forests of New Hampshire as the landscape for a thriving winter pastime. But in the mid-1970s, that was exactly what […]
Heath Robbins makes his living as a photographer. He is the man we turn to (as do many national magazines) when we need to capture people and food in natural settings. So when we asked him to turn his camera on his own family and the meals they prepare, he headed straight to his parents’ […]
Mountains, snow, and fun await visitors in this prized New Hampshire region. In 1642, Darby Field, a ferryboat operator and translator of Indian languages, set a course for history when he took off by foot from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, heading northwest toward the mountains. Eighteen days later, with the support of two Native American guides, […]
Nobody who knew the Hewitt family could believe they were leaving.
The Bretton Woods zip line Canopy Tour in the White Mountains offers a new way to enjoy winter thrills, not to mention lighter crowds and spectacular views of the Western Whites.
When you pay attention to the ground in winter, and if you are being guided by someone who can read a winter ground as easily as a book, these questions emerge: Is that track from a walker, hopper, bounder, or waddler? Are those teeth marks on the trees? On the day I join the Curious […]
Can you get the full Boston experience in one weekend? Probably not. But that’s okay. It just means you’ll have to make a return visit.
The Salem Witch Trials began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister’s daughter began to scream and convulse. They ended less than a year later but not before the execution of 19 people and the unfolding of a mystery that shaped the future American republic. In 1692 the Massachusetts Bay Colony […]
The Trappist Monks of St. Josephs’s Abbey feed their souls with prayer and meditation while facing a future filled with questions without answers.
