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• A museum shelter for art - and snowshoers

  WILLIAMSTOWN - The surprising thing about the Stone Hill Center at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute is not that it keeps a humble profile to blend in with the fields and forest around it, but that it puts those natural surroundings on display. In another time, this site, on a north-facing hillside squeezed among the Hoosac Mountains, the ...

• Touches of class set this Brewster inn apart

  BREWSTER - Perhaps it was the mattress that made us feel we were sleeping on a cloud. Perhaps it was returning from dinner to chocolate truffles on the pillow and classical music playing softly. Or maybe it was the warm, moist towels brought to the table after a delicious breakfast of blueberry buttermilk pancakes and real maple syrup.

• Celebrated on the square

  They’re sprouting locally, small yet official-looking signs that proclaim an otherwise anonymous intersection is the Thomas F. Coughlin, or Wilfred “Freddie’’ Suozzo, or Edward Everett square. “Who are they?’’ you might ask. We toured them and others to find out.

• Where the melting pot still simmers

  It’s the most historic neighborhood in America’s most historic city. So it shouldn’t be a surprise that for much of the world the iconic images of Beacon Hill - flickering gas lamps, red-brick sidewalks, wrought-iron fences - are synonymous with Boston.

• No minimum stay required to rest your eyes on these hotels’ fine art

  It’s possible to view works by artists ranging from Wyeth to Warhol without leaving Greater Boston or setting foot in the Museum of Fine Arts or the Institute of Contemporary Art. Sip a drink, savor a meal, or simply relax while pondering an installation at these hotels, where you needn’t check in to check out the museum-quality artwork adorning the ...

• Tastes of the Azores

  Just when it seemed that our table - loaded with squid rings, cod fish cakes, smelts, and Dão wine - couldn’t fit another plate, Ines De Costa delivered a pork loin marinated in fresh squeezed oranges, wine, paprika, and fresh garlic. “What I send to the table is what you’re going to eat,’’ said the 76-year-old chef of St. John’s ...

• Light slips away on a serene kayaking tour of Essex Bay

  ESSEX BAY - In the golden light of dusk, we slipped into the warm water and followed the receding tide from the beach.

• Something fishy’s always going on

  Having grown up in Manchester-by-the Sea, I was all but weaned on locally-caught lobster, candy-sweet scallops, and flaky, white cod, just a few of the piscatory pleasures dotting area menus this time of year. In a region brimming with superb places to eat, where should you go for great seafood?

• Promenade in parts: Boston's Harborwalk

  Day 1: Long Wharf to North End to Charlestown, 4.5 miles logged “Thirty-eight miles is a long way to go without a bathroom,’’ quips Elizabeth Foote of Cambridge, emerging from the Government Center T station. Foote is striking out with Eric Thorgerson, her husband, and me and my husband, Bill Regan, on this first leg of a five-part hike on ...

• Black Sea echoes

  WELLFLEET -- If ever there was proof of the attraction the landscape of our families holds for us, you need look no farther than Wellfleet.