The Colby College Museum of Art started out in 1959 as one room in the Waterville, Maine, college’s Bixler Art and Music Center. As it approaches 50, the Colby museum ranks, at least in terms of facilities and perhaps in terms of collections as well, as one of the premier small college art museums in […]
Below, you’ll find our comprehensive list of the New England region’s minor-league ballparks, where you can save money and see some of the best up close. Pawtucket Red Sox, McCoy Stadium, Triple A The Pawtucket Red Sox have long been considered one of the most successful minor-league teams in the country. Perhaps no other minor-league […]
A guest blogger!! Jen Kahn learned to scuba dive in a much warmer climate, Los Angeles, California. She moved to New England from L.A. a year and a half ago to work for Yankee Magazine and continues to enjoy the sport she loves, though her season is much shorter on this side of the map. […]
Pinch me. I just got back from Food & Wine magazine’s annual culinary extravaganza in Aspen. The official title (and they do like it when you say it right) is the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen. Now before I make you drool with all the yummy things I got to do and see, I […]
Susan Shatter ranks among the best contemporary American watercolor painters. Other than Andrew Wyeth, I can’t think of another living artist who has done a more substantial body of work in watercolor. Shatter’s new exhibition, “Over Seas” at Aucocisco Gallery in Portland, Maine, features more than two dozen paintings that bring the fresh, translucent quality […]
The smartest kid in Maine intended to win a Nobel Prize by the time she was 25. Life didn’t quite work out that way.
As city after city and state after state begin promoting cultural tourism in hopes of cashing in on the much-ballyhooed creative economy, art trails or museum trails have become an increasingly popular marketing tool. Maine, for example, already has a Maine Art Museums Trail and a Maine Fiberarts Tour. Now it has a Maine Folk […]
George Washington slept here. So did Marilyn Munro and her husband, Joe. No, not Joe DiMaggio. Sorry. We’re referring to Joe Munro (with a “u” and no “e”), current owner of the historically important Asa Potter House. The house is on Kingstown Road in the village of Kingston, which is part of South Kingstown, Rhode […]
29 The Red Seat Section 42, row 37, seat 21 — the Red Seat. Patrons thinking about sitting in the bleachers at Fenway often hope that this special seat might just be theirs for the day. Sox owner Haywood Sullivan had the seat painted red in 1984 after the Red Sox remeasured Ted Williams’s famed […]
12 Manny Being Manny John Hart, the general manager of the Cleveland Indians when they drafted Manny Ramirez in 1991, remembered, “He was kind of a different kid.” Really? Never noticed. Hart recalls that Ramirez had been late paying some bills during a stretch in his first season with the Indians and bill collectors were […]
Finest Summer “Cottage” Inn at Shelburne Farms 1611 Harbor Road Shelburne, VT 802-985-8498 (inn) 802-985-8686 (farm) shelburnefarms.org As I drive directly into the setting sun, the entry posts appear as two shimmering blurs. My vision clears, but the illusion of passing through the pearly gates persists. “Welcome to Shelburne Farms,” the gatekeeper says, advising that […]
One summer, I stood on a platform in the Junior Miss department of Jordan Marsh at Rhode Island’s Warwick Mall and watched my favorite stockboy wheel overloaded racks of men’s suits and women’s coats through the aisles. It was 1973, and I was a Marsha Jordan Girl, one of eight high school kids who modeled […]
