New England Travels

  This is to post a belated public farewell to a dear friend and colleague, John Hayes.  I "met" John in the early years of this b...

Jack Hayes' recent volume of poetry, one of an ambitious three-volume project, is being published by Askance Publishing.  Prayer Wind i...

A ride through Vermont today, and a few views from the middle of the state.  Above, here's the common and town center of Woodstock. ...

With Halloween approaching this week, we give thought to an episode in New England history when vampires were thought to dwell among us...

A few photos in anticipation of the upcoming Labor Day holiday.  Once upon a time, it meant more than the last backyard barbecue of summer....

Even though the signal lights aren't flashing, always be careful crossing railroad tracks like these here in Chester, Vermont.  In ...

The Latchis Hotel and Theater in Brattleboro, Vermont is an Art Deco blast from the past, with a confident future and a vital place in ...

The town common, or village green in Woodstock, Vermont. It is early spring, and the activities held here by the community are for anoth...

Another Chester, another depot... A couple of weeks ago we covered the Chester, Connecticut filming locations of the movie "It...

A little walk from New Hampshire to Vermont involves a little bridge.  Here we begin in Hanover, New Hampshire in the northern part of the ...

Here, photographed in warmer days, is the Briggs Opera House of White River Junction, Vermont. It is a small, but vibrant, theater nestled ...

The Taftsville Covered Bridge crosses the Ottauquechee River. We’re in Woodstock, Vermont. Build in 1836, it’s one of the oldest covered ...

Here is the Lincoln Covered Bridge in Woodstock, Vermont. These photos were taken before Hurricane Irene, but the bridge is still safe and ...

Here is the Bridge of Flowers in Shelburne Falls, western Massachusetts on another beautiful fall day. Our beautiful fall tourist season i...

Here at Elijah West’s tavern in Windsor, Vermont along the Connecticut River, the locals decided in July of 1777 to make this place a free ...

There is an astonishing collection of state symbols in New England, most of which most of us probably have never heard of, until reading tri...

There are splinters of imagery, of memory, that weave a complicated pattern from very simple triggers of thought in the latest book of poetr...

The boyhood home of President Calvin Coolidge in Plymouth Notch, Vermont, is currently undergoing renovation. On August 23, 1923, Presid...

The Quechee Gorge is sometimes called Vermont’s Grand Canyon. This nickname is not so much a comparison of the Gorge to the Grand Canyon, b...

New London Amtrak station This Saturday marks National Train Day sponsored by Amtrak. There are a number of events tied to the celebration,...