I'll have some Nutmeg with my Beer

THE BREWERY The call came as I was cruising home on I-91, passing through White River Junction, about an hour from the Massachusetts state line: "You're in Vermont, right? Can you get me some Heady Topper?" A few years ago, this would have been easy: a chuckle, an eye-roll, and a "no, Bill, I cannot." This time, I just did a face-palm. I had just spent three days in Burlington, Waterbury, and Stowe, proudly sending photographic evidence of my beer experiences in the Green M

Lancaster, New Hampshire U.S. Route 3 runs through New Hampshire's chimney stack, the surprisingly vast, now underused logging lands of Coös County, where towns seem to exist only to keep tourists from claiming that the alpine beauty is infinite. Of all the towns in the North Country, Lancaster might just be the least obtrusive; there are no jarring signs of urbanity here. Yet Lancaster surprises. Lancaster is where the Connecticut receives one of its major tributaries, th