Published on HelloProvidence.com Nestled among the skyscrapers of Downtown Providence is a skating rink double the size of the one in front of Rockefeller Center in New York. But being 14,000 square feet isn’t the only benefit the Bank of America City Center in Kennedy Plaza provides between November and March each year. For...
Published on HelloConcord.com The year 1889 saw great changes for Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science. The preceding decade had been hard-fought in Boston after the creation of the Church of Christ, Scientist in 1879, and the 67-year-old had worked tirelessly for 10 years to grow her church. Mary Baker Eddy decided...
Published at HelloPortlandMaine.com When Scott Reischmann and Twain Braden went to the Maine Boat Show in March 2002, they were only looking for plans to build a recreation dory to cruise the Casco Bay. But an idea for the Portland Schooner Company was born when Reischmann picked up a copy of Wooden Boat magazine...
Published at HelloManchester.com On the banks of the Merrimack River in Manchester is the Amoskeag Fishways Learning and Visitors Center, an organization devoted to education about freshwater fish, environmental responsibility and fostering an interest in marine biology among New Hampshire students. The center’s primary focus on the Merrimack River manifests into an interactive exhibit...
Published on HelloPortlandMaine.com About an hour north of Portland along the Maine coast are the towns of Alna and Wiscasset, two towns that would have served as a rail connection from Maine into Quebec if the Wiscasset, Waterville, and Farmington (WW&F) Railway had been finished. Unfortunately, the railroads that eventually led to the founding of...
Published on HelloPortlandMaine.com The Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport was founded in 1939 with a single trolley car saved after the Biddeford & Saco Railroad Company made the decision to switch to buses. Museum founders Gerald Cunningham, John Amlaw, and Ted Santarelli found out about the changeover and arranged a railfan trip to Biddeford...
Published on HelloPortlandMaine.com Come to the Mid Coast region of Maine between Memorial Day weekend and October each year, and you might see the Art Deco-style cars of the Maine Eastern Railroad chugging along the Maine coastline. Between Memorial Day weekend and late June, passengers can take one of two round trips per day...
Published on HelloPortlandMaine.com The brick building on Congress Street next to the Maine Historical Society looks like many old houses in Portland, but with one distinct difference: In the summer dining room of this house, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ((1807-1882)) penned the words “Into each life some rain must fall.” For this is the...
Published at HelloConcord.com Less than 15 miles north of Concord is Canterbury Shaker Village, one of the oldest and best-preserved Shaker communities in the country. It sits on nearly 700 acres of wooded farmland and consists of 25 original restored Shaker buildings and 4 reconstructed ones. Only six miles to the east is New...
