mud season

Working on your Maine accent? Interpreting some Boston slang? Don’t know a milkshake from a frappe? Let our Guide to New England slang help.

Easily overlooked by city dwellers, mud season is all too real for the rest of us in New England. Consider that in Vermont, for instance, more than half of the nearly 16,000 miles of roadway is unpaved. For tips on keeping one’s vehicle moving through the muck, we visited Gilsum, New Hampshire, to chat with […]

Planning a New England autumn adventure? Our forecaster predicts strong and vibrant color. Read on for the full 2017 fall foliage forecast.

Vermont claims a state bird (hermit thrush), a state flower (red clover), and a state mammal (Morgan horse), but its truest symbol may be its unofficial state automobile, the Subaru.

Author Ellen Stimson calls Vermont the “single most Christmasy place in the nation.” See how she warms her farmhouse with sweet family traditions.

What does the previous year’s weather tell us about this year’s fall foliage? Where are the best places to see foliage in New England this year? Our 2016 peak fall foliage forecast is here to help inspire your annual autumn leaf-peeping adventures!

Photo/Art by Mark Brewer You need a sense of humor when spring thaw meets dirt roads. Take our advice and you just might survive mud season! Keep moving: As long as you keep moving, you’re alive. Mud season is God’s way of letting New Englanders know they haven’t gotten to heaven yet. Feign indifference: If […]

Well, some of the Best Legendary New England Sports Figures. In a region as rich in sporting tradition as New England, it’s tough put a limit on the number of legendary figures, so when we set out to include a few as gifts in our special 80th Anniversary Issue (“80 Gifts New England Gave to America,” September/October 2015), […]

The story of a haying arrangement evolved out of mutual needs, in the manner of many rural working arrangements made across generations long ago.

Roadside Attractions Every spring, Vermont’s 8,700 miles of dirt roads provide surefire entertainment to Green Mountaineers as they watch people from away drive luxury cars on byways that anyone with the common sense of a turnip would think twice about. “It’s drama, comedy, and suspense all at once,” says Elwood Peabody of Turnbuckle, Vermont, who […]

Perhaps you haven’t noticed yet, but there are signs of fall beginning to show up all around us. The sun is setting a little earlier, and rising a little later. The birdsongs of spring and summer have quieted now as the birds molt before migrating. The last of the wildflowers: the goldenrod, the JoePye weed, […]

Woodstock is such a favorite destination for Yankee staffers that when we decided to do an Explore New England piece on the town,  things got a little competitive. But then it occurred to us: This is such a major New England vacation hub, why not send two staffers there and tackle it from different angles. […]