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- Explore the cities, countryside, and far-flung places of New England with hosts Richard Wiese and Amy Traverso. Visit the unique attractions and the region's food and dining specialties to discover the hidden treasures of New England.
- Co-host Richard Wiese experiences the thrill of the Kennebec River, New England's top whitewater rafting destination. Then we rise with the sun in Bremen, Maine, and head out with the "puffin man," National Audubon researcher Stephen Kress, who almost single-handedly returned puffin pairs, and their pufflings, back to Maine. Finally, co-host Amy Traverso joins Connecticut chef and foraging expert Bun Lai to learn how to find delicious food in unexpected places.
- Co-hosts Richard Wiese and Amy Traverso visit Mayfair Farm, a sustainable New Hampshire farm that's cooking up incredible dinners and raising healthy, and happy, livestock. Next, it's all aboard for a trip to the Isles of Shoals off the coast of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on a perfect New England day. Then Richard suits up and gets up close and personal with the bee colonies at Red Bee Honey in Weston, Connecticut. Finally, Amy makes some delicious desserts with actress Sandra Bullock's sister, Gesine Bullock Prado, at her baking school in Vermont.
- Co-host Amy Traverso visits with legendary chef Jacques Pépin at his Connecticut home and helps cook up a couple of his favorite French-New England fusion dishes. Next, we travel to the most climbed mountain in New England, Mount Monadnock, to learn what makes it so special. Then co-host Richard Wiese gets a thrill from custom-built Ducati motorcycles, made in New England and shipped to some of Hollywood's biggest stars. Finally, it's off to Vermont to meet two world-famous craftsmen, Simon and Andrew Pearce, a father-and-son team whose glassblowing and woodturning talents have built an international brand.
- We discover why nothing says summer in New England like Tanglewood, as co-host Amy Traverso heads out to the Berkshires to see what it takes to make the perfect picnic for this famous music festival. Next, we travel to Williamstown, Massachusetts, to experience the Williamstown Theatre Festival and catch a performance by Matthew Broderick in a new play called The Closet. Then it's over to New Hampshire to tour the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, the former home of one of America's greatest sculptors. Finally, co-host Richard Wiese visits the MacDowell Colony, an artists' colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, that has hosted such legends as composers Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein and Our Town playwright Thornton Wilder.
- Co-host Richard Wiese jumps into the world of Bangs Island Mussels, a pioneering fishery in Portland, Maine, that's producing more than 250,000 pounds of sustainable shellfish a year. Then it's up to the Bold Coast of Maine, home to New England's most beautiful coastal trail. Next, co-host Amy Traverso heads to Connecticut's famous Litchfield Hills to visit Arethusa Farm, where the cows get shampooed every day and their milk is turned into award-winning cheese and ice cream. Finally, it's all about the mountains and the great outdoors at Vermont's Trapp Family Lodge, founded by the family made famous by the movie The Sound of Music.
- Co-host Richard Wiese sets sail in the sailing capital of the world: Newport, Rhode Island. From there we travel to Westerly, Rhode Island, a coastal town of tranquil beauty. Then it's north to the rugged Bold Coast of Maine to see the largest whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere. Finally, co-host Amy Traverso travels around New Hampshire to get a taste of the classic New England general store.
- Amy Traverso and Richard Wiese travel to Nantucket with Lisa Birnbach, author of The Official Preppy Handbook. Lisa tells all about this iconic New England style while shopping at Murray's Toggery Shop, where you'll find the ultimate in preppie togs. Then it's onto Tamworth Distilling in New Hampshire's pristine White Mountains, where they've perfected the craft of turning local ingredients into delicious spirits. We then move onto one of Vermont's little known secrets, Little Fenway, a scaled down version of Boston's iconic park-and where families can take a Wiffle ball swing at the big Green Monster. And finally we travel south to Connecticut to visit the first and only Wiffle Ball factory, and see how those magical little spheres are made.
- New England is a region that celebrates its traditions. We board the massive schooner the J&E Riggin for a windjammer cruise along the beautiful Maine coast. Then we travel down to Cambridge, Massachusetts for the Head of the Charles, the largest two-day rowing event in the world. Lastly, we head up north to Vermont where we find the Shelburne Museum, one of the country's most unique museums. Home to a land-bound lighthouse, a steamboat dock in a grassy meadow, and four centuries or art and Americana.
- We're traveling from Boston to Vermont, unearthing some of the regions rare treasures. First stop: Block Island. We're tracking down hundreds of glass orbs hidden all over the island. Then it's up to Vermont where we find the Scott Farm apple orchard. Full of over a hundred heirloom apple varieties-some dating back as far as the 1600s. Then heading south, we travel to Boston to a hidden gem: the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. An art oasis and the place of the largest art theft in US history.
- Think of New England icons and you probably imagine covered bridges, stone walls, church steeples, and light houses. We visit three less typical but equally iconic treasures. Beginning with the Elms in Newport, Rhode Island where we get a behind the scenes tour from this mansion's caretaker of more than thirty years. Then a trip to Olneyville New York System, a Providence, Rhode Island restaurant where the Stevens family has been serving up their signature Coney Island-style wieners for generations of customers. Last but not least, we visit the glass house in New Canaan, Connecticut. Phillip Johnson's private residence that forever changed architecture in America.
- Water-it's everywhere in New England, home of some of the most beautiful oceans, rivers, lakes, and streams anywhere. We experience the amazing water fire-a light show on water that is just stunning. Then it's to New Hampshire to the serene Squam Lake in search of the common loon, now a threatened species in some of these parts. And then it's to the farm coast, an area along the ocean in Massachusetts and Rhode Island for some New England wine making.
- New England is a place of tremendous geographic diversity. From the wilds of Northern Maine to the pristine coastal villages. We visit some of our favorite unspoiled places. We begin at the Well at Jordan's Farm, a fifth-generation family farm where they are growing and serving their own fruits and vegetables at an on-site al fresco fine dining restaurant. Then we head south to Connecticut to the majestic Grace Farms where we visit some incredible birds of prey. And then its fly wishing with Richard's friend, author, and artist James Prosek.
- New England is famous for its iconic villages and small towns. We visit three of our favorites. First up: Stockbridge, Massachusetts the town that inspired Norman Rockwell's art and is now home to a museum featuring his collected works. Next, we head up north to Woodstock, Vermont home to the ultimate country store F.H. Gillignhams and Sons. And then it's off to the classic mill town of Biddeford, Maine to visit what Yankee Magazine calls the best diner in New England.
- Fall foliage is New England's Mardi Gras a spectacular event like nowhere else. We travel around NE and see what colors we find. First, it's up into Vermont where we visit with farmer, cheese maker and trailblazer Allison Hooper who co-founded one of the country's most influential creameries. Then in New Hampshire we travel along the Kancamagus Highway a winding road through the White Mountains that has been called one of New England's most scenic drives. And then it's a visit to what Yankee Magazine calls the best fall foliage town: Kent, Connecticut where Richard takes leaf peeping to new heights.
- Winter in New England-it may be famously cold, but it's also spectacularly beautiful. Full of snow dusted trees, bright blue skies, sleigh rides, and skiing. Richard pays a visit to Boston, Massachusetts to see one of the city's and the country's hottest chefs: Barbara Lynch. Then Richard gets aboard a horse-drawn sleigh in beautiful Jackson, NH. And lastly, Richard straps on his cross-country skis and tries his hand on some world-class ski trails.
- Off the coast of New England are some of the most beautiful islands in the country. We explore three iconic island destinations. First stop, Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts where we visit the historic gingerbread cottages in Oak Bluffs. Then we get an insider's look at one of New England's top destinations. Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island. Then it's back to Massachusetts to a hidden forest where two young farmers are growing one of the world's most prized mushroom varieties for a blossoming group of foodies and top chefs.
- All through New England, there is a term called 'Yankee Ingenuity'-a shorthand nod to traditional values of thrifty, know-how and self-reliance. We visit places where ingenuity and imagination have shaped the landscape. Like Shelburne Farms, one of Richard's favorite stops among all our stories this year. Richard journey's up Mount Washington by cog railway, where a dazzle-belief peeper can get lost in the clouds. And we wrap up at Strawberry Bank, a museum that brings more than three hundred years of New England history to life in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.