Tales on New England apple selecting, fall foliage get response
Westford
After I was a child, my grandmother, who baked the BEST apple pies, would solely use Baldwin apples. Can’t appear to search out them anymore. Can nearly obtain the flavour by mixing Granny smiths and Cortlands — however nonetheless miss Grandma’s.
Randy Moore
Duxbury
Baldwins have been THE apple of New England, however are usually not commercially viable. Like another sorts, they solely bear plentiful fruit each different 12 months. Exhausting to make an orchard pay if half your bushes are dormant every year. Alas, what you must do is develop your individual.
The Colonel
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Apple varieties to search for are usually not those you may get within the grocery store, and one of the best are mid-to-late season apples. Search for Baldwins, Pippins, Winesaps, and Russets and lots of different superb heirloom varieties too quite a few to rely. Many are usually not sugar bombs, however tarter and maintain for months if stored close to freezing in a moist surroundings. I often can discover Baldwins (and different heirlooms) at Russell Orchards (the previous Goodale Farms) in Ipswich by late October…. Cider Hill in Amesbury close to the NH line additionally has different heirlooms.
KWBS
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Discover the Kanc
I like to recommend early-day, midweek journeys to keep away from visitors, as famous in “Secrets and techniques of the Kancamagus” (August 25). I additionally suggest this easy loop: Interstate 93 to Route 302 east by Crawford Notch to Bear Notch Highway south to the Kanc after which west to Lincoln. Even higher, don’t take the Kanc in any respect throughout fall! Strive I-93 all the way in which to St. Johnsbury, Vermont. Then flip round and drive again down 93 south. You might have TREMENDOUS long-range views each methods up and down 93 from Franconia Notch to St. Johnsbury that nobody ever talks about. Bear Notch Highway and elements of the Kanc are literally extra superb when the early roadside colours seem, a couple of month earlier than peak and a month earlier than visitors! You typically get a “tunnel” of coloration because of the cover rising over the highway. THAT is a sight to see!
Jeff Kevorkian
Middleton
I can’t imagine this didn’t embody the Lincoln Woods Path, the busiest place on the Kanc within the winter. It additionally ought to have talked about the commonest mistake folks make, calling it the KancaMANgus Freeway, when there is no such thing as a second N.
Gene Sidore
Hollis, New Hampshire
What’s the attraction of sitting in a automobile in visitors? Ditch the automotive. Go for a hike or bike journey. Discover the highway much less traveled.
Bort1989
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I haven’t pushed the Kancamagus in over 20 years. I used to like it. Many superb spots to drag off and go for a brief hike and soak up beautiful surroundings. I’ve accomplished the Pemi Valley Tour tour twice and noticed moose each occasions…. Sadly, lots of people who’ve by no means seen a moose within the wild really feel they will get a close-up picture. Harmful and silly. In case you see any type of giant wildlife, steer clear of it. No picture is value endangering your life or the animal’s life. Moose don’t like people as it’s and can get simply agitated.
Superfuzzy66
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Island Escape
Cheri Newton’s descriptions drew me in, and I actually obtained a superb sense of Jeju Island — each its magnificence and its troublesome historical past (“The Jewel of South Korea,” August 25). It’s now on my to-do record of locations to go to. The article was enhanced by the terrific images. What an important and inventive staff of author Cheri and photographer Kim Newton. I look ahead to studying concerning the subsequent place they go to!
Maria Odilia Romeu
Philadelphia
My spouse and I had the pleasure of visiting Jeju with mates whereas I used to be stationed in Korea with the Military in ‘78/’79. It was a phenomenal place with superb meals and great folks. We ate various sea creatures that we had by no means heard of and it was all scrumptious. We met an American instructor residing on the island and he served as our casual tour information. I keep in mind being surrounded by native youngsters who watched us take images of the ladies diving for abalone. We had a Polaroid SX-70, which took immediate photos, they usually have been completely fascinated. We took a couple of images with them [for] them to take residence. Only a great expertise.
NewsnShort
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After I was within the Peace Corps in Korea in 1980, I married a girl from a village the article talked about, Halim. A darkish historic shadow nonetheless hangs over the island from when many have been killed in the course of the South Korean authorities’s efforts to exterminate folks they’d recognized as sympathizers for the resistance. Older folks there would by no means discuss to me about what had occurred, the magnitude and the brutality. It has solely not too long ago turn out to be part of acknowledged historical past in Korea. The increase that obtained began within the ‘80s and which is characterised within the article enormously reworked the island. As such transformations do, its underside threatened native tradition and dialect. It displaced an important many native individuals who have been easy farmers.
Gordon Ruesch
Austerlitz, New York
I realized of Jeju Island by studying Lisa See’s unbelievable e-book The Island of Sea Girls, which showcases her immense degree of analysis into the tradition, historical past, and, particularly, the lifetime of the matriarchal society of the haenyeo divers. Whereas the e-book is historic fiction, it supplies a deeper appreciation of the island and its folks.
jd@86
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Equally, I watched Our Blues, which is about individuals who dwell on Jeju and I liked it! The most effective reveals I’ve seen, in any language. It’s on Netflix.
Blerg11
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Guided Excursions
What an important and uplifting Connections (“Getting Round Greece,” August 25)! The friendship between the 2 vacationers and the heat of the folks of Greece got here by so clearly and lovingly.
Paul Brown
Jamaica Plain
A very powerful individual within the Globe Journal article on touring in Greece with a motion incapacity is the pal who steps in to offer the assistance wanted to entry the world. My motion incapacity just isn’t excessive and even evident, however I can discover so many extra locations as a result of I’ve household and mates who immediately take my hand or my elbow to make sure my stability and stop my anxiousness about falling in crowds, on uneven floor, and even in water on the seaside. They’re the folks everybody must navigate their lives — with or with no incapacity.
Diane Clark Campbell
Brewster
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