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Sights to See

Sights to See

Last week I asked you to send in vacation photos, with an eye toward a community slideshow. Some of you kindly obliged. Enjoy these sights of the world, as seen...

Sights to See

Last week I asked you to send in vacation photos, with an eye toward a community slideshow. Some of you kindly obliged. Enjoy these sights of the world, as seen...

Lake Restoration

Lake Restoration

If there’s one thing high school English teaches us, it’s the transformative power of leaving home in order to contemplate a New England pond. Henry David Thoreau sought Walden Pond...

Lake Restoration

If there’s one thing high school English teaches us, it’s the transformative power of leaving home in order to contemplate a New England pond. Henry David Thoreau sought Walden Pond...

Grand Tour

Grand Tour

You don’t have to travel 250 miles to stumble over a grand reminder of New Haven’s historical reach. But you can. Victoria Mansion, an opulent historic house museum in Portland,...

Grand Tour

You don’t have to travel 250 miles to stumble over a grand reminder of New Haven’s historical reach. But you can. Victoria Mansion, an opulent historic house museum in Portland,...

Easy Riding

Easy Riding

“Staycation” is a jolly portmanteau for traveling without leaving. It puts a brave face on the kind of quasi-fun one turns to in thriftier times, “quasi” being a Latin root...

Easy Riding

“Staycation” is a jolly portmanteau for traveling without leaving. It puts a brave face on the kind of quasi-fun one turns to in thriftier times, “quasi” being a Latin root...

Close Escapes

Close Escapes

Summer’s a good time to get away. But maybe you don’t want to get that far away. Or maybe you want someone else to get away here. So here are...

Close Escapes

Summer’s a good time to get away. But maybe you don’t want to get that far away. Or maybe you want someone else to get away here. So here are...

Western Express

Western Express

Famously wealthy Westport engenders the usual class resentments. But aside from the occasional shocking reminder of what I can’t afford—for example, admiring a cute little clutch in a shop on...

Western Express

Famously wealthy Westport engenders the usual class resentments. But aside from the occasional shocking reminder of what I can’t afford—for example, admiring a cute little clutch in a shop on...