The fall foliage has always made Massachusetts' Berkshires region one of America's most beautiful driving destinations. But lately, the thriving art scene is drawing its own share of peeps.
Every now and then, you stumble upon a town that's gotten everything right -- great coffee, food with character, shop owners with purpose. These 10 spots have it all, in perfectly small doses.
Steven Spielberg led the FBI straight to a stolen $700,000 Norman Rockwell painting someone snatched from a Missouri gallery. It was in his collection in California.
Anne King was 19 and earning $12 a week in a dime store when she was recruited in 1942 to learn how to make airplane parts. She worked at Republic Aviation on Long Island as a mechanic and riveter on P-47 Thunderbolt fighters and other aircraft.
A walk down Main Street in this New England town calls to mind the pictures of Norman Rockwell, who lived nearby and chronicled small-town American life in the mid-20th Century.
Found hidden behind a wall this year, the Norman Rockwell painting "Breaking Home Ties" broke a record for the artist when it sold for $15.4 million at auction this week.
Cruises don't have to be "mega." They can feature kite-flying from the deck, a Saturday-night fish fry in a church basement, bagpipe music drifting across a fog-shrouded harbor -- and Fairly Honest Bob.
A soldier held in Japanese prison camps in World War II secretly painted stars and stripes on pilfered paper hidden from his captors, then held the flag up high to greet American planes flying overhead when his camp was liberated.
The fall foliage has always made Massachusetts' Berkshires region one of America's most beautiful driving destinations. But lately, the thriving art scene is drawing its own share of peeps.
Every now and then, you stumble upon a town that's gotten everything right -- great coffee, food with character, shop owners with purpose. These 10 spots have it all, in perfectly small doses.
Steven Spielberg led the FBI straight to a stolen $700,000 Norman Rockwell painting someone snatched from a Missouri gallery. It was in his collection in California.
Anne King was 19 and earning $12 a week in a dime store when she was recruited in 1942 to learn how to make airplane parts. She worked at Republic Aviation on Long Island as a mechanic and riveter on P-47 Thunderbolt fighters and other aircraft.
A walk down Main Street in this New England town calls to mind the pictures of Norman Rockwell, who lived nearby and chronicled small-town American life in the mid-20th Century.
Found hidden behind a wall this year, the Norman Rockwell painting "Breaking Home Ties" broke a record for the artist when it sold for $15.4 million at auction this week.
Cruises don't have to be "mega." They can feature kite-flying from the deck, a Saturday-night fish fry in a church basement, bagpipe music drifting across a fog-shrouded harbor -- and Fairly Honest Bob.
A soldier held in Japanese prison camps in World War II secretly painted stars and stripes on pilfered paper hidden from his captors, then held the flag up high to greet American planes flying overhead when his camp was liberated.
Greeting card sales have increased over the past decade and particularly since 9/11, which means that Valentine's Day--already America's second-largest holiday for greeting cards, trailing only Chr...
The best company to work for in America is headquartered in Orrville, Ohio (pop. 8,000), a quiet, tidy town 50 miles south of Cleveland. Employees don't get any razzle-dazzle perks--no pet insuran...
Last February, John Cleghorn, chairman of Canada's largest bank, ended what one newspaper had dubbed a "meteoric rise to the top." The time had come, he told reporters, "to learn to play the banjo....
CARIBBEAN High-season savings. It's peak season in the Caribbean--with prices to match. But some destinations in the region are relative bargains. The Dominican Republic and Margarita Island, which...
It all started with holiday leftovers. Just after Thanksgiving in the fall of 1953, C.A. Swanson & Sons, a poultry producer, found itself with a catastrophic surplus: 260 tons of unsold turkey meat...
In Thomas Lee's tony Manhattan pied-a-terre hangs a Frank Moore painting of a happy Norman Rockwell-esque family dinner. All appears in perfect order as everyone gathers around a platter of...drugs...
The illegal drug trade, apparently the world's fastest growing and most profitable industry, has scarcely been hampered by several governments' efforts to stop it (FORTUNE, June 20). Now the Bahama...
Hold the shredder. That pile of old annual reports gathering dust may be more valuable than you think. The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York City believes annual reports have artistic ...
Like to own a copy of the exuberant porcelain sculpture that Reagan gave Gorbachev at the summit last December? You can. Boehm Studio in Trenton, N.J., maker of the silver-and-gold-bedizened globe ...
THEY ARE such an integral part of the American landscape you don't really notice them most of the time. They fade into the urban scene like so many telephone poles or fire hydrants. But once you ar...
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