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83 /// A Guide to Winter Comforts

Shake off the chill with the coziest inn in the world (we built it!), the best comfort foods around, and warm and welcoming New England pubs.

96 /// The Last of the Hill Farms

In his new book, Vermont photographer Richard W. Brown pays tribute to the vanished landscape he once roamed and to its people, his friends.

108 /// The Big Question: Polly Mahoney

We ask a veteran Maine musher: What makes a top dog?

110 /// Called to the Wild

For Lucas St. Clair, winning support for Maine’s newest national park monument meant contending with the backlash against its benefactor—who happens to be his mother. By Ian Aldrich

116 /// Looking Back on Our Town

Eighty years on, Thornton Wilder’s classic play still echoes in the New Hampshire village that’s said to have inspired it. By Annie Graves

118 /// The Artist in Winter

Growing up Finnish-American taught Eric Aho to meet the extremes of winter with extremes of imagination.

By Kristen Laine

124 /// Leaving Mary’s Farm

How Yankee ’s Edie Clark found “the best, most rewarding kind of love” in her little home on the hill. By Mel Allen