All posts tagged "recreation"
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11.5KArts and LeisureHow the Balsams Resort Was Built on a Railroad Seat
The story of the Balsams Resort, one of New Hampshire’s great old hotels north of the notches, begins with a conversation between...
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15.2K3New England PlacesThe New England Summer Theater — Six of the Oldest
Summer theater has been a feature of New England resort towns since a Maine entrepreneur started staging plays in a former skating...
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29.1K8ConnecticutThe Highest Point in Each New England State
You might think the most challenging mountain climbing adventure in New England is to the highest point in the region: Mount Washington...
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18.7K3Arts and LeisureStockbridge Steps Into a Norman Rockwell Christmas Painting
Every year for two hours at Christmastime, the town of Stockbridge, Mass., turns itself into a Norman Rockwell Christmas painting. The Town...
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99.7K28Arts and LeisureHow Portuguese Immigrants Came to New England
In 1915, four Madeiran men organized a feast at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in New Bedford, Mass. They did it...
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22.4K12MassachusettsHow Victory Gardens Helped Win World War II
Victory gardens helped win World War II because they allowed the U.S. government to divert scarce tin supplies for military use. They...
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