Wolfe’s Neck Woods State Park is located on the seashore in Freeport, Maine.  The 245-acre park is a part of a peninsular that lies between the Harraseeket River and Casco Bay.  At one time this was farmland but it has since gone to woods.   The park is a short 5 mile drive from the center of [...]

If you’re a family with young children taking a New England vacation this year or trips to destinations or attractions around the region then consider purchasing the Fun Pass discount coupon book. The Fun Pass is $25 and can be obtained from the New Hampshire Breathe organization which was formerly the American Lung Association [...]

Boston has long been popular with Hollywood as a location for movies and TV shows. Most know that the TV show Cheers was based on a Boston Bar, and Good Will Hunting and The Departed were both filmed on the streets of the Hub. Beantown has become a friendly city towards movie makers as the Governor [...]

A Norman Rockwell painting or illustration is as instantly recognizable as playing a few bars of a symphony and knowing it was composed by Mozart. Rockwell continues to be one of America’s most beloved artists. Yes, his scenes and subjects help maintain his popularity and fan base - they are of growing up and growing old and [...]

by Eric. J Hurwitz Harrow’s chicken pies are a surefire way to get in a “fowl” mood, in the best sense. The Reading, Mass.-based storefront, in business for more than 50 years, continues to create amazing, old-fashioned chicken pies. The slow-cooked, white-meat chicken combines with the ultimate homemade gravy, resulting in a chicken pie that would even [...]

by Eric J. Hurwitz VisitingNewEngland Hotel Guide Hotel names within coastal regions can be misleading. Pick a place blindly out of a travel guide advertisement with the words “mist,” “ocean,” or “sea,” and you could very well find yourself located right next to an endless highway of strip malls and fast food chains, miles from the ocean. Of [...]

The Old Country Store and Emporium in West Mansfield, Mass., is reminiscent of country stores in Vermont and New Hampshire by Eric J. Hurwitz VisitingNewEngland.com When thinking of prototypical country store locations, the scenic rural backroads of New Hampshire and Vermont seem synonymous with these traditional, old-fashioned retail places to shop. Much to our surprise, we found the [...]

I used to be able to jog to the “World’s Largest Rotating World” a 28-ft. diameter steel ball on the campus of Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Today the jog would be a little further - about 140-miles further actually - right up the New England coast to the town of Yarmouth, Maine, just up [...]

On Sunday June 8th, 2008 this year’s Dragon Boat Festival of Boston will take place on the Charles River. The festival is an ancient celebration of the life and death of Chinese patriot-poet Qu Yuan who lived from 340-278 B.C. The final Dragon Boat races take place between 9:00am-5:00pm along the Charles in Cambridge. In addition [...]

This doesn’t profess to be a complete list of theme and water parks in New England but it includes the largest and the most popular parks and covers each state in the region. Baked into these nine parks are enough exciting hours to satisfy the thrill-seeking hunger of any teenager. There’s also plenty of fun [...]