As a travel writer, I have stayed in fine hotels. But really, how could any place, no matter how swank, be worth those prices?
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View a collection of some of the treasures from the John Carter Brown Library on the Brown University Green in Providence, Rhode Island.
Design
Warm Glow
Credit: Hornick/Rivlin 1. Stone artist Lew French carefully chooses every rock that goes into his rustic yet awe-inspiring fireplaces (priced per project). Lew French — Stone By Design, Edgartown, MA. lewfrenchstone.com 2. Hand-poured votives ($4-$8), tapers ($18), sconces ($15-$18), pillars ($15-$90), and shaped candles such as this large pear ($12) are made from nontoxic beeswax […]
Living off the grid means living with the rewards and the contradictions that come with that decision.
Ski — or snowshoe — Vermont’s Catamount Trail; then relax in style at country inns and bed & breakfasts.
When we first heard about Fetchstix, the initial question that came to mind was: “Is this an example of Yankee ingenuity or a sign of the apocalypse?” Wagatha’s, a small company in Manchester Center, Vermont, that produces organic dog biscuits, has started selling bundles of maple sticks as boutique dog toys for $12.95 a pop, […]
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J. D. Salinger’s Last Supper
On any given Saturday night, just about anywhere in New England, volunteers put on a supper in a church hall or basement. It’s a fundraising ritual almost as old as the country, started by women’s auxiliary groups during the years after the Revolution, as towns and states gradually abandoned the practice of using levies to […]
Recent college graduate and former Yankee intern Josh Allen, spent last summer as a sea kayak guide in Maine, and then was accepted into the ski patrol training program at Okemo Mountain in Ludlow, Vermont. Each week he will take us behind the scenes at one of New England’s most popular and busy mountains. The […]
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2010 Fall Photo Contest Winner
This blog is a first for me in a couple of ways: I haven’t written for a blog before, and I’ve never entered a photo contest before. That’s mainly because there are so many great photographers out there, and I didn’t think I had any chance of being a finalist, let alone a winner! The […]
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Art at Play in Brattleboro
Making art is both a serious form of human inquiry and a form of imaginative play. The five exhibitions that open November 6 (and run through February 6, 2011) at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center in Vermont share a sense to playful fun that should delight visitors through the holiday season and into the […]
New England
Fall Craft Fairs and Fun Outside
I love brilliantly colored fall foliage, but what matters most to me is the color of the sky. If it’s blue and the sun is shining, then foliage could be peak, post-peak, almost peak and I’d still be perfectly happy. Luckily for us weekend warriors, the last few fall weekends have been perfect examples of […]
For me, listening to music is a live-out-loud experience. That’s why my iPod often sits idle, gathering dust and losing its charge. I usually forgo its technical isolation, preferring instead to turn the knob, sink into a chair, and assume the full weight of music with my whole being. At times it pours out heavy […]