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As much as I love New England, March is the one month with the muscles to push me out the door. Two Marches ago, I jetted down to Puerto Rico to embark on a Virgin Voyages cruise. Last March, I spent a memorable week in


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Joseph Lee’s story is a quintessentially American story in that it stubbornly defies any easy definition of what a quintessentially American story even is.

He grew up in Newton, Massachusetts, the son of a civil engineer and a preschool teacher. His paternal grandparents were Chinese. His maternal grandmother was Japanese, and his grandfather was Wampanoag with a m...


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From the day I arrived in New England during a January 1970 snowstorm to now, I have lived in 18 different houses in 11 towns—seven in Maine and four in New Hampshire, the state I’ve called home since the autumn of 1979.

I have been part of many stories telling of deep roots and love of land, the words always belonging to others. Most of those pieces have appeared ...


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In his 1908 essay “Ornament and Crime,” the Austro-Hungarian modernist architect Adolf Loos declared, “Ornament does not heighten my joy in life or the joy in life of any cultivated person.”

To which I and the many fans of gingerbread houses say, “Adolf, baby—loosen up.”

Anyone who has ever walked along a street of sober, stalwart, sensible structures and...


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The New England small town is one of the most recognizable images of America—immortalized in books and movies such as Little Women and Charlotte’s Web, and held up as an iconic symbol of wholesome values and community spirit. We can all picture the white-steepled church, the hills forested with brilliant foliage, the lighthouse on the rocky coastline. But w...


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