In Lucy Maud Montgomery’s classic book, Anne of Green Gables, the protagonist, Anne, describes an impossibly beautiful route as the “White Way of Delight”. This footpath is our very own White Way in early Spring. Starting across the street from The Colonial Inn on the opposite site of Lowell Road, it stretches behind Main Street [...]

Winter is now officially over. Never mind that Spring has been on the calendar for weeks, it is classic to New England that we go from Polartec to Sun dresses in a matter of days…and so is the case with us. April Vacation is here and it gives Emily, Ally and I a chance to [...]

You can almost hear the hum on Main Street as preparations continue for the Patriot’s Day celebrations. The dust and debris that gathered on sidewalks from endless plowing over a very long winter, is now gone. The store front windows are gleaming and several shops have opened their doors, displaying their merchandise to passerbys, in [...]

Tributes to one battle and those who fought it, made both vivid and poignant through poetic verse. The first, I look upon often during my morning walks at Minute Man National Park. The second, Longfellow, is from a collection of poems I was given entitled The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. “It was two [...]

West Concord Depot or Union Station, as it was known when first opened in 1894, is approaching its original luster. This was the hub of West Concord (across Route 62 from Concord Center) over 100 years ago. Today it still serves as a waiting station for the Commuter Rail trains running in and out of [...]