Already a college football phenom, Doug Flutie became a star in 1984 with a Hail Mary pass that many New Englanders still talk about.
Jenn Johnson
As a world-class designer, builder, and sailor, Rhode Island native N.G. Herreshoff pushed the limits of what boats could be.
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Where to Go Sailing | Newport, RI
Looking to leave behind the landlubber’s life and go sailing? Newport, RI, has plenty to float your boat.
For nearly 50 years, summers at Tanglewood meant the homecoming of favorite son Leonard Bernstein.
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Photo Sharing 1.0 | Up Close
How Polaroid cofounder Edwin Land created an instant sensation.
For as long as there have been coffee tables, it seems, there have been New England coffee table books. With the subject itself doing much of the heavy lifting—providing glowing fall foliage, romantic lighthouses, and neat-as-a-pin town greens—photographers have flocked to this area as persistently as gulls. Native son Arthur Griffin, born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, […]
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Speak, the Tooth | Up Close
In an 1831 catalog of what is today the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, there’s an entry for a scrimshaw titled “Tooth of a Sperm Whale, curiously carved.” With it, a second entry: “Another, carved by the same hand.” These two pieces were among the first scrimshaw ever acquired by a museum, and they […]
Sixty years ago, Olga Huckins of Duxbury, Massachusetts, sent a letter to a friend describing the state’s aerial spraying of DDT on her property. Furious and frightened by the dead songbirds she’d seen afterward, Huckins thought her friend could help raise the alarm about this “spraying of poisons from the air.” The friend was writer […]
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Peak Chic | Up Close
Tom Padham suiting up for his job in winter is a little like a firefighter donning turnout gear. Both must protect themselves from head to toe against an extreme environment, which for Padham is the Northeast’s highest summit (where last January saw 127 mph gusts and a wind chill of -65). True, Padham can take […]
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Home-Run Hotels Near Fenway Park
Looking for some great options among Boston hotels? Near Fenway Park, you’ll find these fan favorites.
Did you know that earmuffs were invented in Maine by Chester Greenwood in 1873? Learn more about the history of these “vintage toasters.”
An appreciation of Car Talk’s four decades of good advice, bad jokes, and living by the motto non impediti ratione cogitationis.