Point and Counterpoint In your article “Rising Seas” [March/April], professor John Anderson of College of the Atlantic refers to an assumed sea level rise of six feet by the end of the century. This is based on some “model.” A six-foot rise means that all of lower Manhattan in New York and Fenway Park in […]
For a group of Down East neighbors, the goal was simple: to buy wild shoreland to protect it from developers. They could not guess what bigger changes their good intentions would bring.
We hit a favorite breakfast spot in each New England state to discover a surefire dish you can order there — or whip up at home.
The Chebeague Island Inn gets spruced up after a long winter. Its namesake island is the largest of a scattering of more than 100 small islands that populate Maine’s Casco Bay.
A father-and-son camping trip to a long-ago family homestead stirs up the past.
We spent the day exploring New Bedford, Massachusetts – The Whaling City – and were rewarded with warm weather, great food, ocean views, and historic charm.
by Hannah Palmer Egan When people think about food in New England, they inevitably conjure rolling fields, farm-to-table restaurants, and seaside shellfish shacks. Of course, you will find those here, sprinkled throughout the Northeast’s gentle mountains and rugged coastlines. And the region’s small cities — Providence, Portland, Cambridge, and Burlington, among others — are well known for […]
A couple of years ago, I was on assignment in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. The focus of my visit was the hilly hamlet of Greensboro, which is small even by northern New England’s standards. But oh, what a place for lingering. I meandered up and down the aisles of Willey’s, an everything-under-the-sun kind of store that […]
Last fall we had a really persistent woodpecker pecking holes in the corner boards of our house. We’ve had the boards replaced, but we wondered if the bird will be back this spring. Why do they do this, and how can we keep them off our new corner boards? —Calvin A., Dublin, NH Woodpeckers drill […]
A springtime favorite, pussy willows look lovely as a centerpiece or woven into spring wreaths. Learn how to grow pussy willows in your own yard.
Enjoy this collection of beautiful Vermont barns spanning the four seasons. All images were submitted by our talented readers.
The Newton family was camping at Coburn Gorge in northern Maine over Labor Day weekend in 1975 when Kurt, age 4, disappeared. What followed has been termed “the most extensive woods search in the history of Maine.” But all the thousands of volunteer searchers ever found were unanswered questions.
