Meg Lukens Noonan

Now is the perfect time to set off in search of cranberry bogs, oyster farms, and cheese makers. A longtime New England resident reveals the most delicious places to visit in the run-up to Thanksgiving—and fun outdoor adventures along the way

Every year, hundreds of Lilly Pulitzer fans congregate in Palm Beach, Florida to celebrate their muse and her inimitable fashion.

A new guard of English painters leads a resurgence of the deeply personal art form, capturing faces and figures in a fresh light- MEG LUKENS NOONAN

INSTEAD OF BOMBING UP THE CALI COAST FROM L.A. TO BIG SUR, THIS ROAD-TRIPPER TAPPED THE BRAKES AND DISCOVERED 80 MILES OF BIG BEACHES, QUIRKY SURF TOWNS, AND GREAT WINERIES- MEG LUKENS NOONAN

With its magical landscapes and quirky culture, Rhode Island's coast is straight from a movie

I'm ready for Corsica. I have my striped boat-neck tee, my easy little tank dress, my rope-soled espadrilles-and a guide to driving a manual-shift car. Because before I can get to the blue bays and honeysuckle-scented hills of the mountainous French island 100 miles southeast of Nice, I'm going to have to get that Peugeot I've rented into reverse.

At the Gilded Age’s favorite summer resort, they do the holidays to the nines.

The boat slows as we enter a channel marked by slender wooden posts. Just ahead is our destination-Lånan, an island so low and treeless that its half-dozen or so blocky houses, some painted white, some a strong Norwegian red, appear to be suspended above the silver sea. We ease our way past grass-covered skerries fringed with beds of bladderwrack seaweed, and steer around dark, submerged rocks.

It wasn't invented in Hawaii, but the mid-20th-century movement defined mainland America's vision of island life.

Elin Hilderbrand’s hold on her avid readers comes to life on a Nantucket January weekend.

Even if you stopped marking time in semesters decades ago, a fall weekend in Hanover, New Hampshire, the home of 252-year-old Dartmouth College, will likely have you feeling misty for those salad days of frats and Frisbees.

Henri Quinta sees stripes everywhere: colored pencils in a case, books on a shelf, flowers in a cultivated field. He sees them in striated sunset skies and wave-creased seas. Sometimes he sees stripes when he closes his eyes at night—especially, he says with a laugh, if he's had a little too much wine.

It's like taking a fantastical ride down a Victorian rabbit hole.

When it comes to merrymaking, few towns in America can hold a holiday candle to Kennebunkport.

When an all-business 8-year-old named Mikaela Shiffrin joined a New Hampshire ski club back in 2003, coaches and parents knew they were witnessing something special.