New England Guide

Your guide to Harvard’s neighborhood and beyond—featuring dining, events, museums, and cultural happenings in the Greater Boston area.

Nineteenth-century prison ruins with brick guardhouse surrounded by forest.

This Connecticut Mine Was Once a Prison

The underground Old New-Gate Prison quickly became “a school for crime.”

by Nell Porter-Brown

A white haired professor emeritus standing by a stone wall in the woods explaining its origins

Curiosities: Stone Walls, a Closer Look

Learning from the past through relics in Concord, Massachusetts

by Nell Porter-Brown

Get Out

Where to enjoy a classic New England summer on land, sea, and sky

by Kara Baskin

Photograph of stone bridge over a pond in a park

Happenings in Hartford

Literary legacies, parks, festivals—and more

by Nell Porter-Brown

Pick up trucks filled with colorful flowers

Trading Finance for Flowers

Cultivating local blooms in Upton, Massachusetts

by Nell Porter-Brown

Boardwalk by Taunton River and Braga Bridge overhead

Fall River: Phoenix Rising?

“A good place to be pleasantly surprised”

by Nell Porter-Brown

Sweet Dreams

Where to sleep, sup, and sip in Harvard Square and beyond this spring. 

by Kara Baskin

Alejandro Montagna standing in front of a small airplane wearing a wingsuit

Flying Squirrel

Wingsuit skydiver Alejandro Montagna on minimizing risk—at 150 mph

by Nancy Walecki

Historic buildings and American flag in Litchfield, Connecticut

Litchfield’s Legal Eagles

Visiting America’s first formal law school

by Nell Porter-Brown

Exterior of blue house with garage surrounded by greenery

Taking Care of Your Roots

Spring is the perfect time to touch up your property

by Kara Baskin

People playing dodgeball on indoor trampolines

Jumping for Joy

Trampoline parks—fun for all ages 

by Nell Porter-Brown