Travel

A sampling of don’t-miss national parks and sites in New York, the Canadian Maritimes, and Quebec.

Follow aimless paths and carved boulders to Cape Ann’s Dogtown — New England’s most famous abandoned settlement with a checkered past.

The temperate shores of Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island, where farmland rolls to the sea, are the perfect place to welcome spring.

When we ask readers to send us their favorites among the photos they’ve taken that speak to “My New England,” we’re asking not only for their images but also about what New England says to them. It gets personal, doesn’t it? The word “My” adds a layer of commitment. What readers sent us by the […]

When people come to the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts, they gaze at the volumes and say, “Who ever knew such a literature existed?”   Don’t you know Yiddish is dead?” When Aaron Lansky, then a graduate student of Yiddish literature, first proposed saving the world’s Yiddish books in 1980, many scholars were pessimistic, […]

Susan Cole Kelly is a published photographer and author. She started her avocation as a New England stock photographer while working in an IT career in Boston. Since taking early retirement she has been able to devote more time to photography, and now travels throughout the region taking photos which are used by publishers of […]

For more than a century, a ship called Sunbeam has shined its light on the outermost Maine islands.

New England’s beer culture is as rich and robust as a dark, toasty stout. Our region boasts more than 100 breweries, so picking its five best beermakers poses a rather enjoyable challenge. In 2010, Kerry J. Byrne, a food and beverage writer for the Boston Herald (and creator of coldhardfootballfacts.com, a site devoted to beer, […]

The bountiful waters off Duxbury, Massachusetts, which once fed Pilgrims, today are still home to a thriving ecosystem and abundance of fish.  Saquish is a long spit of sand and cobble guarding the entrance to Plymouth Bay. It has a few beach houses, marshes and mudflats, and crazy currents. It’s also Skip Bennett’s favorite place […]

Hartford Connecticut’s historic Bushnell Park Carousel celebrates 100 beautiful years. With both the Wadsworth Atheneum, the first public art museum in the country, and the Mark Twain House among its most popular attractions, Hartford, Connecticut, has long been a welcome home for both history and the arts. And in the heart of downtown, a hand-carved […]

Looking back at 100 years of history along the scenic Mohawk Trail in northwestern Massachusetts.

For more than a century and a half, Swan Point Cemetery in Providence, Rhode Island, has been a resting place for many of the state’s most notable citizens, and a source of serenity and beauty for all who enter.