New England
The Great American Road Trip Destination: Maine Book: The Lobster Chronicles: Life on a Very Small Island by Linda Greenlaw And don’t forget your musical accompaniment over at Music Road, where Kerry Dexter will introduce you to a Maine fiddler and a list of “storytellers in song” that hail from Maine. Print PDF
PDF The Great American Road Trip Destination: Vermont Book: South of the N. E. Kingdom by David Mamet (a National Geographic Series called Directions) Print PDF
Destination: Concord, Massachusetts Site: Henry David Thoreau’s Home “What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?“ Print PDF
The Great American Road Trip Destination: Connecticut Movie: Ice Storm (1997) Starring Kevin Kline and Sigourny Weaver, Directed by Ang Lee Filmed in Greenwich, Connecticut. Print PDF
Valentine’s Day is on a weekend! Perfect excuse to travel. Last year I talked about my favorite romantic city, romantic book and poetry, hotel, restaurant, etc. in this post. Please take a look because I have not changed my mind. And read on for two East Coast suggestions for this Valentine’s Day (if you can [...]
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Great American Road Trip: Massachusetts Destination: Cape Ann, Massachusetts Book: Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town (2009) by Elyssa East Here we are in a wild, wooded 3,000 acre area next door to Gloucester MA. It may come as a surprise that we are not visiting Gloucester, a tourist mecca and [...]
France on Friday Destination: Boston Book: Walking Boston by Robert Todd Felton A GUEST POST BY Robert Todd Felton Bivalve Molluscs, French Royalty, and the Streets of Boston One of the best parts of walking around Boston is that you are always bumping up against some surprising scrap of American history. Around one corner is [...]
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Nathanial Philbrick’s book Mayflower deepens our understanding of the Pilgrim settlers.
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Cape Cod B & B owner, Alexandra Grabbe introduces us to a literary novel set in her home town of Wellfleet.
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