Places

By Ines Keane Most towns pick a craft. Berea, Kentucky, picked a college and let the crafts come with it. […]

By Ines Keane Most towns wait for a museum to explain what they made. Corning, in the Southern Tier of

By Ines Keane Frankenmuth looks like a village in southern Germany. The facades are timber-framed, and Christmas lights go up

By Isla Quinn Trombones on a cold street. White lights on one side of the river, colored lights on the

By Isla Quinn A brown paper bag. A scoop of sand. A tea candle. Set a few thousand of those

By Isla Quinn Over half a million lights. That is the Leavenworth Chamber of Commerce’s count, and the lights stay

By Isla Quinn Nantucket is an island off Cape Cod. For most of the year it is quiet. In the

By Ines Keane Seagrove is small. Yet it sits at the center of one of the best-known pottery districts in

By Ines Keane The falls came first. The people who chose Lowell were not looking for a place to live.

By Ines Keane More than 600 ships, built over 135 years, starting in 1784. That is the figure Wikipedia gives