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The Boston Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) has almost 500,000 pieces of art ranging from ancient Egyptian to contemporary art. Some of our favorite galleries are the 19th and 20th-century American and French. What’s not to like about Monet, Renoir, Sargent, etc? On our 2022 visit, we also explored some special exhibits Philip Guston Now: […]
One can love Salem Massachusetts for many reasons: The simple beauty of its historic, 17th-century, clapboard, pitched-roof houses, its 18th- and 19th-century brick ship captain and merchant mansions; and its initiative of turning the disadvantages of poor agricultural land and rugged, deep, rocky shoreline into a seafaring powerhouse that was the fifth largest, and of […]
Boston is a great restaurant town. Every time we return, we try to visit old favorites as well as seek out the newest hot spots. While seafood (especially lobster and clams) prevails at many restaurants, you can find almost any type of food here. Restaurants come and go. And menus change frequently. But here are […]
The Berkshire region is an area in the western parts of Massachusetts and northwest Connecticut. It is a beautiful area of rolling hills and includes part of the Green Mountains. We arrived in the northwest corner of Massachusetts’ Upper Berkshires via Vermont’s Route 100, the state’s unofficial Foliage Highway. The drive took us through North […]
We recently returned to Boston, where we had lived for over 20 years before moving to San Francisco. It was an opportunity to spend time with friends, revisit some old haunts and explore new places and restaurants. Boston Back Bay and South End We spent most of our time in the city reacquainting ourselves with […]
Williamstown Massachusetts is a small, pretty college town on the Massachusetts/Vermont/New York border. The town itself is lovely with its two-block long commercial street (Spring Street) old buildings, and school campus. We decided to stay in Williamstown for 2 nights. This would work for many people but it was not a good decision for us. […]