Award-winning photographer Smari grew up in Iceland. He bought his first camera at the age of 14, financed by selling the daily Icelandic newspaper, and has been obsessed with photography ever since. After studying business, Smari left Iceland for California to attend Brooks Institute of Photography. He then crossed the country to Boston and recently […]
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Massachusetts
Finding Wildflowers at Garden in the Woods
Garden in the Woods in Framingham, Massachusetts, offers a great opportunity to see native wildflowers.
Massachusetts
Massachusetts Best Attractions 2012
Yankee Magazine‘s 2012 picks for the best attractions in Massachusetts. BEST ALL-FAMILY ATTRACTION Heritage Museums & Gardens, Sandwich The gardens and trails crisscross 100 acres; the gentle maritime climate encourages dramatic displays of rhododendrons, daylilies, hostas, and hydrangeas. The museums offer something for everyone in the family–from the gorgeously restored Looff carousel to antique automobiles […]
Massachusetts
Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House
New England, as we all know, is jam-packed with historical bragging rights, not only in the sense that our six little states were (and are) flourishing epicenters of business, food, industry, art, education, writing, politics (the list goes on and on) but the enduring tributes to these achievements – the schools, museums, factories, monuments, houses, […]
New Hampshire
Call of the Wild: Loons
The haunting cry of the common loon is vanishing from many New England waters. Whether we hear it much longer depends on us. “Is it there? I can’t see anything.” I’m standing on a wooden dock with my husband on a chilly morning in early June, my bare feet plastered with wet grass from our […]
New England
Grand and Spednic Lakes
You could visit a different lake or pond in Maine every day for nearly a decade. The state’s two largest lakes get a lot of attention: Sebago was ringed years ago with second homes, and Moosehead is today a battlefield between environmentalists and a major landowner who has proposed a large-scale resort and vacation-home community. […]
New Hampshire
Monadnock: Hike Away From the Crowds
By Justin Shatwell Assistant Editor, Yankee Magazine Not a native New Englander, I never went on a childhood vacation to Mt. Monadnock. I first saw the lonely peak as a grown man when I moved to Keene a year ago. From a distance it’s a rare beauty — solitary and serene — and for a […]
Travel
SLIDE SHOW: Walden Pond
Icelandic photographer Smari is preparing a book of photography of Walden Pond, capturing a place and mood that Thoreau would recognize. Click here for a slide show of Smari’s Walden Pond photos. Click here for Jim Collins’ article on Thoreau’s Sacred Place.
New England
Walden Pond
Walden Pond State Reservation Open year-round 8 a.m.-sunset; day use only. $5/vehicle parking fee. Route 126 South, Concord and Lincoln, MA. Visitors’ Center, 915 Walden St., Concord, MA. 978-369-3254; mass.gov/dcr/parks/walden
Massachusetts
Walden Pond: Thoreau’s Sacred Place
View a slide show from photographer Smari’s book on Walden: A Year. If you come early enough on a summer morning to Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, you get a sense of where Henry David Thoreau lived, and what he lived for. Light slants through the towering pines on the southeastern shore, glittering on the […]
Massachusetts
Concord, MA: History, Museums, Places to Stay
When the red-coated ranks of British regulars tramped westward from Boston on the fateful morning of April 19, 1775, little did they know that they were about to catapult the sleepy village of Concord, Massachusetts into the history books. The British captured the rebels’ stores of ammunition and flour and dumped the lot into the […]
Massachusetts
Concord, MA: Hawthorne Inn
If you’ve ever wondered what it’d take to convert your home to a great getaway, consider the experience of Gregory Burch and Marilyn Mudry. For some 30 years, they’ve made the Hawthorne Inn in Concord, Massachusetts, home to their family of five and more than 100,000 travelers. That’s a lot of houseguests when you’re raising […]