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Faced with a row of garage doors in an innocuous-looking business park in Eliot, Maine, it's easy to riff on the classic Monty Hall question: What's behind door number 20? [...]

It is nearly impossible not to submit to the presence of driftwood. Smoothed out by the rhythms of time and water, twisted and rubbed clean by the wind, stripped to [...]

In no special order, and without provocation, I find myself dreaming of tiny enameled earrings shaped like barnacles, blown-glass eggs with a dash of Jackson Pollock, and a tidy stack [...]

What would you do with a million pounds of tangled lobster rope? Thousands of old maps and postcards? Or 750 tons of old sails? If you've got vision, you might [...]

In a massive brick mill building seven miles west of Portland, Maine, in the town of Westbrook, I stumble into a world of symbols, the domain of a man who [...]

The way up is rugged. Dirt roads fork through the Vermont landscape, fields spreading wide on either side, with a distant, distracting view of Mount Monadnock. But the road ahead [...]

Gifts for the garden--from hand-forged tools to all-weather urns--lend their own beauty to the landscape. And when they're rooted in the creativity of New England artisans and companies, they only [...]

At one time, all things were new, and that is certainly true of John Sedgley's house. To imagine this York, Maine, beauty in its early heyday simply requires that you [...]

A patch of indigo grows alongside Bull Creek, giving no hint of the infinite range of blues hidden in its leaves. Tucked down a short hillside, and invisible from the [...]

This article tells the story of Thea Alvin, a renowned stonemason artist based in rural Vermont. Alvin's backyard sculpture park features gravity-defying stonework, including a 100-foot-long stone helix, undulating walls, ponds, and a pizza oven. Despite experiencing a devastating fire in 2017 that destroyed her barn, studio, and half of her house, Alvin was determined to rebuild and make her home beautiful again. With the help of friends and community members, she slowly rebuilt her barn and house, incorporating unique and artistic elements into the design. Alvin's passion for creating beautiful things every day helps her combat depression and stay positive, even in the face of challenges like drought and poverty. The article also highlights Alvin's love for stone and her extensive experience in creating sculptures around the world. She sees stone as a contemplative material that carries the energy and intentions of those who worked with it in the past. Through her work, Alvin aims to create mysteries and stories that will be pondered by future generations. Overall, this article showcases Alvin's resilience, creativity, and dedication to her craft. [Extracted from the article]

In Kate Nelligan's coastal world, sea urchins the size of dinner plates float over navy blue pillows. Buoys bright as confetti jostle on a rug. Bolts of fabric teem with [...]

LONG BEFORE THE 30 BOOKS and the far-flung travels to places like Namibia and Borneo; before being stalked by man-eating tigers and courted by tarantulas; before the legions of furry, [...]

Francestown, New Hampshire, can feel like a village that time forgot. Main Street is classic New England, with its Capes and colonials and old meetinghouse fronting the green, but the [...]

It is impossible to look at one of Steve Cayard's birchbark canoes and not hear music. The curving interior ribs are like echoes, ringing down the length of the canoe, [...]

Pie. Three little letters packed with warm, flaky comfort. Sweet or savory, pie releases good vibes with every slice, and now more than ever, we crave its handmade solace. That [...]

I push the wood to its limits, and it pushes back,' says Alison Croney Moses. 'Sometimes you can hear it, protesting.' She is, at this moment, flanked by a nearly [...]

A wild torrent of jungle, splashed with outsize flowers, charges across the pages of Finding Wild, even as slivers of city peer from the background. Abigail Halpins bold and brilliant [...]

Some mysteries will remain forever unsolved. What moved some long-ago soul to weave evergreens together to make an adornment? Who hung that first wreath on a cold and snowy day? [...]

We are joined in the studio by assorted critters: wild, domestic, and anthropomorphic. In fact, the two life-size red squirrels facing off on a birch stump are almost unnervingly real. [...]

IT IS A ROGUE RIVER-RUNNING NORTH. That was the first theory I heard about the Mad River's name, and in the end, it was my favorite. The wayward water courses [...]

One look at the trail of photo images, and I was hooked. You could practically hear the peace pattering down onto the dove-gray walls, the linen chairs, the just-dark-enough-without-being-oppressive hickory [...]

Look up. The wind is about to change. You will know this because the sky is filled with bluefish, mermaids, and a West Chop lighthouse, all spinning in agreement, changing [...]

The music is twangy, languid, slow as a muddy river. It is a perfect foil to the action unfurling in the video--the rise and fall of a slippery chunk of [...]

For 473 dramatic miles of New England coastline, the Atlantic Ocean captivates us with its tumbling waves, sandy beaches, and intimations of endlessness. One way or another, this salty beauty [...]

THEY ARE SUCH DIVAS, HAVE YOU NOTICED?!' The two dachshunds, Rosie and Isabella, are scrambling at my feet, and this declaration rises and falls in an animated South African accent. [...]

The ritual feels as old as fire itself. There is still something deeply primeval and powerful about the prospect of conjuring a flame, even in our era of techno-wizardry. So [...]

NEW ENGLAND'S ARTISANS AND ENTREPRENEURS CAPTURE OUR REGION'S ESSENCE WITH WIT AND STYLE. OFFERING SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE, HERE ARE THE GIFTS THAT BRING US ALL HOME. FOR THE KIDS 1. [...]

There were police involved. Samples taken. Incriminating jewelry. 'You really want to go there?' Jill Rosenwald challenges me, laughing, as we rewind to the first glimmers of what would become [...]

Call it alfresco, call it plein air, there's a certain je ne sais quoi to Burlington, Vermont, once the warm weather sets in. Folks seem giddy with possibilities. The largest [...]

'Nantucket is just in me,' says Sara Fitzgerald O'Brien, as we drift from the living room to her art studio, in the home she shares with her husband, Miles, and [...]

A salty breeze chops the air, blowing into Bristol, Rhode Island. It's April in the old seaport, and already, in the distance, sailboats are flying over the waves, outpacing the [...]

This is no one-shot fixer-upper saga. It's more of a renovation epic. I'm standing in the doorway of what appears to be a pretty one-room schoolhouse, dropped here from 1800. [...]

THEIR SKILLS ARE AS OLD AS NEW ENGLAND ITSELF; THEIR MATERIALS, TIMELESS. BUT THERE'S A MODERN GLEAM THAT RUNS THROUGH THE WORK OF THE 10 ARTISANS IN THESE PAGES, EACH [...]

Four inches of fresh powder has fallen overnight, and so, digging out skis that have been moldering in the attic for too long, I head north to a Vermont village [...]

There is something irresistible about the notion of downsizing. Squeezing out the extraneous. Focusing on the essential. Living an expanded life in a truncated space. Hence the exuberance of the [...]

Let us follow the thread. More precisely, the multitude of threads--aka embroidery floss. Fanned out in front of me, these colorful little skeins are the product of DMC, a famous [...]

To cast iron, you need heat, sand, and metal. That's it. Everything else is peripheral. K In a different setting and a different time, Matt Cavallaro might pass for a [...]

I can get homesick pretty easily,' confesses Nicole Aquillano. We are standing in a converted studio/garage in Acton, Massachusetts, as she continues, 'I think it's crazy, for how long I've [...]

FIRST, I BECOME AWARE OF THE LIGHT--NUDGING INSISTENTLY. It brushes the tops of hay bales, rolled into tight spirals. It spreads out like butter across fields of fresh-cut grass baking [...]

The hills are alive with hiking, fishing, and a bounty of farm-to-table eateries. And, of course, some of the best outlet shopping in New England. Sometimes beauty is in the [...]

Thomas Moser at home can sit anywhere he likes, in multiple chairs of his own design. But on this particular Maine morning in mid-July, as the sun burns through a [...]

Spring comes early to Exeter, New Hampshire. Maybe it's due to the proximity to the sea (15 minutes) or possibly to an odd commingling of rivers--one sweet, one salty--behind the [...]

Bre Doucette's farmhouse, built in 1846, would be scarcely recognizable to its original family, but its breezy style and witty design solutions have become familiar to more than 100,000 monthly [...]

On the coldest day of the winter, which is soon to lead into the coldest night, we head south from New Hampshire in search of personal climate change. Seventy miles [...]

In the depths of winter, Imagination settles in. It curls around the embers of a wood fire, peers through lidded windows. And sometimes it bursts its boundaries, in homes designed [...]

By night, the river glides through the heart of Mystic in silence. It's dark and mysterious, with a moody quietude that makes it easy to imagine tall ships sailing the [...]

It's eight weeks till Halloween, and Salem is bracing itself. 'Last year we had 100,000 visitors,' says one local shopkeeper, with practiced equanimity. 'They came by train, boat, bus, car, [...]

The house sits in a cup of sunlight at the end of a two-mile dirt road that winds past old sheep meadows. It sits with assurance and composure, a fact [...]

I step inside the creaky workshop tucked behind a no-nonsense 1860s farmhouse in the hinterlands of Woodbury, Vermont, an hour and a half from the Canadian border. Dust motes drift [...]