 Elisa decided that our Mother’s Day gift to her mother would be to take her on a day trip to the Berkshires, a part of Massachusetts that my mother-in-law, who was visiting from her home in Italy, had never visited. So after a date was settled on (Sunday, June 27), we got to work looking for some fun things to do that she would enjoy. The wonderful thing about visiting the Berkshires is . . . → Read More: Day Trip to the Berkshires: The Clark & Tanglewood  With Columbus Day weekend comes peak foliage in northern New England, and this year Elisa and I decided to explore the southern half of Vermont State Route 100. Inspired by the September/October issue of Yankee magazine, which did an article on traveling Route 100, we had made a dry run back in September just to make sure the drive would live up to its hype. Columbus Day weekend came blessed with a good . . . → Read More: Apple Tasting & Foliage Drive, VT Route 100  Autumn is without a doubt northern New England’s best time of the year. The other seasons have their place, although Spring here might better be named ‘mud and bug season,’ but in the Autumn, New England is truly in her glory days. This is due, in a word, to one thing: foliage. This year, like most years, the peak weekend for enjoying New England’s foliage is Columbus Day weekend (October 10-12). Sure, the . . . → Read More: Enjoying New England’s Fall Foliage  North of Concord, New Hampshire, just a short detour off of I-93, you’ll find Canterbury Shaker Village. Founded in 1792, just eighteen years after the first Shakers immigrated to America from England, the Shaker village in Canterbuy was one of nineteen Shaker communities in the United States. Shakers lived, worked, and worshiped at Canterbury Village for some 200 years, with the population reaching 300 during the 1850s. The last shaker who lived at . . . → Read More: Canterbury Shaker Village  Just north of Brattleboro lies Dummerston, Vermont, home to Scott Farm. A long-time dairy farm, Scott Farm was tranformed into an apple orchard in the mid-20th century by owner Fred Holbrook. In 1995 Mr. Holbrook donated his farm to the Landmark Trust with the stipulation that it remain in agricultural use for perpetuity. Over the years since the Landmark Trust has owned the farm, the orchard manager, Zeke Goodband, has used classic . . . → Read More: October: Apple Tasting at Scott Farm  This past Saturday we met up with our oldest son, his wife, and his wife’s sister in Lee New Hampshire to do some apple picking at DeMeritt Hill Farm. Elisa and I arrived a bit early, so we spent a little time watching children interact with the goats, chickens, miniature horses and alpacas that form a cute little barnyard petting zoo. Once we were all together we purchased our apple picking bags from . . . → Read More: Apple Picking at DeMeritt Hill Farm  For my father’s day gift from my wife Elisa we went the following Saturday (June 27) to Lenox, Massachusetts and Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. It was our fourth visit to Tanglewood and the third time that we saw Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion performed there. The guests that were scheduled to appear were Martin Sheen, Steve Martin with the Steep Canyon Rangers, multi-instrumentalist Stuart Duncan, and singer Heather Masse. . . . → Read More: Prairie Home Companion Live at Tanglewood  On May 31 I went on a whale watch along with my wife, my mother-in-law, and my son Matthew. We selected the 2:00 pm whale watch tour that is run by the New England Aquarium. Prior to boarding the ship, a relatively modern catamaran that can reach the Stellwagen Bank Marine Sanctuary in about 90 minutes, we were told that the seas would be a bit rough. This is a bit of a . . . → Read More: Whale Watch From Boston Harbor  Northern New Hampshire is a beautiful place. The Connecticut lakes at the headwaters of the Connecticut river are pristine and wonderful, and the wide variety of activities draw people north all year around. If you should happen to find yourself there, consider making a sidetrip to see New Hampshire’s only World War II POW camp, which housed German POWs from 1944 until 1946. Up north in Coos county is the small town of Stark, . . . → Read More: Camp Stark: New Hampshire’s WWII POW Camp |
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