New England Travels

Have a look at a nostalgic view of New England in this travelogue film from the 1940s.  Summer in New England is something eternal. Or watch...

  Looking for Christmas gifts for the historical mystery lover -- who also happens to love New England?   My "Double V Mysteries" ...

Dutch Island sits in the West Passage of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island.   It was originally used as a trading outpost by the Dutch fr...

Rose Island Lighthouse is maintained by hired vacationers who sign on for a week at a time to keep this historical treasure operating...

Cruising down Swan River on Cape Cod, deep enough only for a kayak or a flat bottomed paddle boat. You wind along watching herons, and gulls...

When the Scots poet Robert Burns wrote “My Love is Like a Red, Red, Rose” in 1794, he likely did not envision something as common and prosai...

This is Rockport, Massachusetts from The Headlands, and the eye-catching red shack on the wharf is unmistakably Motif #1. It stands on Br...

The Marginal Way in Ogunquit, Maine is a footpath running alongside the ocean cliffs for about a mile and a quarter. It is not a strenuous w...

On Nantucket, you are perhaps just as likely to tie the dory or dingy or motorboat up to the back porch as you are to park the car in the ga...

Lingering a little while on Patti Page from our Tuesday post , here's Cape Cod Bay from Dennis, and a solitary beachcomber in the dista...

Perkins Cove, a section of Ogunquit, Maine, on a sunny and very hot summer afternoon. Both a working fishing village, and tourist attractio...

Like a world unto itself, a world on stilts, the Old Orchard Beach Pier has been around over 100 years, first opening to the public in 1898....

There is that look of expectation on the faces from the people on the wharf as your ferry pulls into the harbor. Something quite unlike the...

It’s not a long voyage to Long Island, New York. But the cars crawl cautiously into the ferries, and the human passengers step briskly up g...

This view of a sailboat is off Falmouth, Mass., looking across the water towards Martha’s Vineyard. A reminder of our memories of summers ...

One last look at a summer sunset, in this new era of chilly mornings and leaves the color of flame. One of the interesting things about liv...

Above is a photo of what goes on at the Chatham, Massachusetts wharf on an average day. The commercial fishing boats come in, unload their ...

Above, a woman rows a dory off the coast of Rockport, Mass. Below, a sailboat navigates Nantucket Sound with Martha’s Vineyard in the back...