Harley Pike's 1930 sugaring off party: maple syrup, hard-boiled eggs, pickles, and lots of friends, plus one last remaining brother, Nathan. Today his sugar shack is gone, but the gathering place remains as a picnic area with vistas of the Connecticut River and New Hampshire's White Mountains.
It’s early March and the water level is low behind Samuel C. Moore Dam, the 178-foot-high earthen barrier in the Northeast Kingdom that holds back the Connecticut River. So low, in fact, that hikers walking across the muddy shoreline are puzzled by stone fences and smooth tree stumps Read More