Frozen Peaches: The Big Stick

75 Things Every New Englander Should Do

From Yankee Magazine's 75th Anniversary

1. Actually Climb Bunker Hill Monument

2. Bet on Ice-Out (Housatonic River in Kent, CT)

3. Shop at 3:00 a.m. in Freeport (L.L. Bean) It might still happen but I'm saying I've been there. Sure, it was 3:00 pm but still...I've been there. (October 7, 2011)

4. Sleep with the Symphony (Apple Tree Inn overlooking Stockbridge Bowl in summer)

5. Learn a Really Good Mud-Season Joke Do you know all 4 seasons here in New Hampshire? Almost winter, winter, mud season and, of course, road construction!

6. Go on a Flea Market Spree

7. Negotiate the Braintree Merge

8. Have Another Donut! Or Two, or Three (Cold Hollow Cider Mill in Waterbury, VT) Burl and Lori visited Cold Hollow Cider with Lucy and me over Thanksgiving holiday, 2010

9. Watch the Revolution Begin (April 19)

10. Get Your Kodak Moment with the Big Indian

11. Know Where the Chowder Turns Red (Rhode Island with Clear chowder!)

12. Weave Around a Real New England Frost Heave - done! Our axels were replaced in 2010 - trying to do so everyday!

13. Make a Fool of Yourself Playing Candlepin - played at King Lanes in Manchester with Gammie, Papa, Uncle Burl and Aunt Lori 5/22/11.

14. Take a Whirl Down Maine's Snow Bowl

15. Save Your Pennies (Penny Candy from the Vermont Country Store in Weston)

16. Find Yourself on Sugar Hill in June (NH)

17. Drink Your Coffee Milk (see post from October 2010)

18. Ride the Scenic Railroad (Conway, NH)

19. Get the Best Seat at the Finest Sculling Race in the World (Boston's Charles River)

20. Brown-Egg It (Thanks to the Rhode Island Red, we do this weekly)

21. Eat at Locke-Ober (Boston - steak au poivre or lobster)

22. Eat at J.T. Farnham's or Woodman's (Essex, MA - clams)

23. Eat at Moody's (Waldoboro, Maine - Grape-Nut Pudding)

24. Eat at Pepe's, Sally's or Modern (New Haven, CT - pizza)

25. Autumn Redezvous at Dead Creek (late October Middlebury, VT and Geese)

26. This Land is Tuttle Land (Dover, NH - oldest family farm in continuous operation)

27. Lace Up Your Limmers (Intervale, NH custom hiking boots)

28. Eat Your Sauerkraut (Morse's Sauerkraut in Waldoboro, ME mid-September)

29. Test Yourself on the Batten Kill (Eastern Fly-Fishing)

30. You need to make at least once: New England Boiled Dinner

31. You need to make at least once: Yankee Pot Roast

32. You need to make at least once: Boston Cream Pie

33. You need to make at least once: Boston Baked Beans (Made in slow cooker 10/10/11)

34. You need to make at least once: Down East Clam Chowder (12/11/11 made clam chowder - YUMMY!!!)

35. You need to make at least once: Indian Pudding

36. You need to make at least once: Boston Brown Bread (in Coffee Can)

37. You need to make at least once: Anadama Bread

38. You need to make at least once: Sugar on Snow

39. You need to make at least once: Toll House Cookies (is there another kind of chocolate chip cookie?) See post from July 15, 2011.

40. Find Your Own Separate Peace at Phillips Exeter Academy (campus that inspired John Knowles' coming of age classic) See post from July 16, 2011 Exeter, NH

41. Fowl History (Adamsville, RI monument to the chicken)

42. Know a Little Something About the Other Old Man of the Mountain (Joe Dodge - Appalachian Mountain Club)

43. Eat Your Apple Pie with a Slice of Cheddar

44. Take a Swim in Maine's Penobscot Bay

45. Make a Date With a Registered Maine Guide

46. Play the Name Game (campaign buttons at Robie's Country Store in Hooksett, NH) Visited August 16, 2011.

47. Argue About Where the Sun Rises First (Maine)

48. Talk About the Big Storms Like an Old-Timer: The Blizzard of 1888.

49. Talk About the Big Storms Like an Old-Timer: The Hurricane of '38 (The house we almost rented was originally built to deal with the downed wood from this storm).

50. Talk About the Big Storms Like an Old-Timer: The Blizzard of '78.

51. Talk About the Big Storms Like an Old-Timer: The Ice Storm of 2008 (babies! - Our first winter...really?!)

52. Keep Your Eyes Peeled for the Lake Champlain Monster (Summer 2010 posts)

53. Know the Pain that Came with Being a Red Sox Fan Pre-2004.

54. Learn the Story of a True New England Tall Tale

55. Visit E.B. White Country (Maine's Blue Hill Fair inspired Charlotte's Web)

56. See the Potato Blossoms of Maine's Aroostook County

57. Visit Robert Frost's House - Any of Them (8 different locations - 4 you can tour)

58. Have an Awkward Conversation With Someone Who Won't Break Character Henry David Thoreau at Walden State Park; Dr. Hall Jackson, General George Washington, and Mr. John Adams at American Independence Museum

59. Watch Santa Make His Arrival - on the Water (Kennebunkport)

60. Fill Up on Something Other Than a Boiled Dinner: Burritos: El Mexicano, Manchester, NH

61. Fill Up on Something Other Than a Boiled Dinner: Pieroki: Staropolska, New Britain, CT

62. Fill Up on Something Other Than a Boiled Dinner: Paella: Toro, Boston

63. Fill Up on Something Other Than a Boiled Dinner: Poutine: Chez Vachon, Manchester, NH

64. Play It Humble (Nubble Light House - most photographed in the world in York, ME)

65. Raise a Glass (Doyle's in Jamaica Plain, MA)

66. Speak Like a Regular at Louis' Lunch (New Haven, CT birthplace of the burger)

67. Grin and Bear It: Bits of Life Every New Englander Has Learned to Contend With

Blackfly Season

May frost

Mud season

Boiled dinners

Hollywood's Boston accents (all hail Matt Damon!)

68. Start Your Cape Weekend on a Thursday

69. Get Your Red, White & Blue On (Bristol, RI 4th of July)

70. Tour the USS Constitution

71. Read a Timeless New England Book

A Separate Peace, John Knowles

We Took to the Woods, Louise Dickinson Rich

Walden, Henry David Thoreau

Eathan Frome, Edith Wharton

The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne

Moby-Dick, Herman Melville

Little Women, Lousia May Alcott

72. Tour the Bones in Our Closet (Lizzie Bordon B&B, Boston Strangler tour, Salem, etc...)

73. Buy the Maple Syrup Locals Buy (Grade B)We purchase it at the local coop market

74. Debate the Cakes (corn cakes - johnnycakes, jonnycakes, etc...)

75. Know That Covered Bridges Weren't Covered to Keep Out the Snow.

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