Looking to rest your head in Beantown? We’ve got you covered! Check out our picks for the best lodging in Greater Boston for 2014. BEST HIDDEN-GEM B&B: TAYLOR HOUSE, Boston This stately Victorian in architecturally lovely Jamaica Plain feels worlds away from downtown hotels. It’s close to the neighborhood’s lush Arnold Arboretum, across the street […]
york
Come along on a late-spring visit to charming town of Manchester, Vermont.
New Hampshire
Madame Sherri | New Hampshire’s Most Eccentric Resident?
Take a drive down the Gulf Road in West Chesterfield, New Hampshire, some time. It’s an enchanting landscape — horses running through sun-drenched fields, steep green hills dotted with small white houses. Further down the road, you’re enveloped by woods and wetlands. The driving here is somewhat questionable, and you have every right to be […]
A small selection of favorite maritime books and resources on New England’s rich seafaring history, ordered by publication date … New England and the Sea Robert G. Albion, William A. Baker, Benjamin W. Labaree Mystic Seaport Museum, 1970 America and the Sea: A Maritime History Benjamin W. Labaree et al. Mystic Seaport Museum, 1998 Black […]
Want to accessorize your garden in one fell swoop? From antique birdbaths to terra-cotta pots, these shops have everything you’ll need. Here are the winners for best garden accessories shops in Yankee Magazine’s 2014 Home & Garden Awards. ANTIQUES The Sugarplum Wilmot, NH. 603-768-3925; thesugarplum@comcast.net (exhibiting at York Antiques Gallery, 746 U.S. Route 1, York, […]
What are some ways to make a new house look old? We asked everyone’s favorite old house expert, Bob Vila, for his tips and tricks.
We ask quilt restorer Betsey Telford-Goodwin … what stories does a quilt tell us? In the late 1970s, Betsey Telford-Goodwin was introduced by a friend to the world of quilts. Her adoration for them was immediate. “They’re tactile, they’re art, they’re colorful, they’re warm—they epitomize everything I love,” Goodwin says. Today, the Boston native and […]
Maine
Winter Nubble Lighthouse
This photo was taken of the Nubble Lighthouse in York, ME this winter.
This photo was taken on the road up to the Nubble Lighthouse in York, ME.
Rhode Island
The Caretaker of The Elms in Newport, Rhode Island
Harold Mathews has been looking after The Elms, a 48-room French chateau known as The Elms on Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island, for 30 years.
An unlikely partnership between a chef and a home cook yields the tastiest Mexican food in Connecticut at Oaxaca Kitchen.
Connecticut
Essex, Connecticut | Could You Live Here?
With a bucolic setting on the Connecticut River and steeped in history and tradition, Essex, Connecticut, was once named the best small town in America.