Connecticut

Photographs | Upper Connecticut River Valley

Photographer Kindra Clineff lives in Topsfield, Massachusetts, but has roots in New Hampshire and Vermont.  The Upper Valley is an area she knows well, and she spent much of last summer exploring the picturesque towns along the Connecticut River.  She captured perspectives on land, on water, and even conquered her fear of heights capturing photos […]

Homes

Cobb Hill in Hartland, VT | House for Sale

We pulled into a parking spot near a huge red barn and silo. Perched along a couple of rows on the hill beyond were a series of attractive houses, one after another clustered together. It was like entering a beautiful Alpine village. We were arriving at what’s known today as Cobb Hill in Hartland, Vermont, […]

Today

SLIDE SHOW: New England Lakes

See the beauty of three of New England’s lakes — Lake Willoughby in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, and Lake Umbagog in Errol, New Hampshire — captured by the Kozowyk brothers’ lenses. More photography by the Bros. Kozowyk: christiankozowyk.com jonathankozowyk.com

History

So What’s With This Molly Stark Woman Anyway?

For me, the most puzzling of New England legends is the one involving Molly Stark. Puzzling because the historic Molly Stark never said or did anything of note. Nothing. And yet she is really big in New England today. For instance, the road between Brattleboro and Bennington, Vermont is called the Molly Stark Trail. A […]

Travel

Stellafane Convention | The Skywatchers

Since 1926 hundreds of amateur astronomers and telescope makers have gathered on a Vermont hillside at the Stellafane convention, their own “Shrine to the Stars.” I’m standing on Breezy Hill in the black ink of a Vermont midnight in mid-July, surrounded by savants and telescopes. “Switching to M11,” somebody whispers as the barrel of his […]

Massachusetts

Mary Rowlandson | The Legend of Redemption Rock

On May 2, 1676, almost exactly 100 years before America declared its own independence, another kind of liberty was won. On that day, the freedom of one woman who had spent three months on a heart-wrenching, harrowing journey in Native American captivity, was finally returned to her. Her name was Mary Rowlandson, and today, we refer to this fateful […]

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