This weekend I went exploring in northern Indiana and discovered the beautiful little Beverly Shores train station. It is located on the South Shore Line, an electric commuter rail that runs from northern Indiana to Chicago, skirting around the southwest corner of Lake Michigan. The South Shore Line began in 1903 and stretched all the… Read More Beverley Shores & the South Shore Line
Last week I posted about the beautiful Newport Cliff Walk. It turns out that’s actually not the only place you can traipse through the backyards of beautiful houses to walk along an ocean bluff. There’s another such walk and it’s on the island of Nantucket. If you head to Nantucket’s easternmost edge and the town… Read More Best Cliff Walks Part 2: ‘Sconset, Nantucket
Newport, which sits at the southern end Aquidneck Island in the state of Rhode Island, is perhaps best known as the long-time host of the America’s Cup sailing regatta and for the Gilded Age mansions that cluster on its southern cliffs. Also on those cliffs? Newport’s Cliff Walk. Oceanfront land ownership and access have long… Read More Best Cliff Walks Part 1: Newport, RI
I visited Martha’s Vineyard primarily for the beaches and the boats (I’ve been hooked on ferries since living in Seattle–hello Whidbey and Orcas Island!) but I was amazed by the architecture. Sure, there are extravagant houses. This is Martha’s Vineyard, after all, vacation place of presidents. But what I’m talking about are the cottages of… Read More Martha’s Vineyard Camp Turned Dreamy Cottage Community
Nantucket, the beautiful and wind-weathered island 30 miles south of Cape Cod, was a surprising center of activity in the 18th and 19th centuries. With fortunes made from whaling and a progressive mindset, Nantucketers weren’t just part of 18th- and 19th-century American society but leaders of it (Phebe Coffin Hanaford, for one, was the first… Read More Roofwalks: A View of Nantucket History
Susie Trexler 