A loving look at Rockport’s annual Christmas celebration

“Ecstatic, wondrous, frightful, foreboding”—a local photographer’s Dogtown perspectives

Rock & Roll Hall of Famer David Robinson savors his surprisingly quiet life in Rockport

Exploring Massachusetts through its birds

Inga McCarthy brings a world of experience to her Gloucester bakery, Cake Ann

Gloucester’s Rosemary Scott makes art “to connect with people — and one of those people is myself.”

The light, the quality, and the times of Gloucester filmmaker Henry Ferrini

“Brian is able to put his finger on the thing: The poignancy, contradiction, pain, confusion, the longing behind much of the human experience.”

“We want to see it preserved so the land is not abused”

Gloucester Stage Company artistic director Robert Walsh has made theater a full-contact sport

A Beverly Farms artist begins a new chapter by restoring a house with simple solutions inspired by nature

Meet Annisquam’s Scott Fraser, the quiet motor behind a legendary Cambridge ballet company

After a years-long search for the perfect spot, a Boston architect builds a mold-breaking seaside home in Rockport

The road from beer to rum runs through Salem

Glassblower James McLeod has reconnected with his passion in a barn in Essex

Wherein our intrepid reporter goes in for a cup of Joe

Author Thomas Dresser’s detailed history of Dogtown

An Ipswich family learns that sometimes the perfect place is right under your feet

A historic-but-overlooked Salem neighborhood is reborn as an unforgettable outdoor museum

The childhood summer home of Nobel Prize-winning poet and author T.S. Eliot is reborn as a writer’s retreat