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If you can’t get to Ireland for St. Patrick’s Day, Boston may be your next best bet! St. Patrick’s Day draws more than 500,000 visitors to Boston–a city with a long-standing Irish tradition. St. Patrick’s Day falls on a Wednesday this year, and the city has festivities planned leading up to and after the holiday. If you’re headed to Boston for St. Patrick’s Day, consult my Boston Travel Guide for more things to see and do. If you can’t make it to Boston, plan your own Irish feast at home with my collection of Irish Recipes from New England.

More Ways to Go Green in New England

• Discover New England’s Prettiest Town Green
• Green Hotels and Inns in New England
• New England for Vegetarians

_{St. Patrick’s Day Parade photo reprinted with permission of the Boston Irish Tourism Association.}

Think Green! originally appeared on About.com New England Travel on Sunday, February 21st, 2010 at 09:40:43.

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The 29th annual Connecticut Flower & Garden Show runs through February 21, 2010 at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford, Connecticut. You’ll find inspiration in abundance at this expansive gardening show, which features 25 display gardens, prize-winning horticultural contest entries and vendors selling everything from garden tools and accents to jewelry, crafts and food products.

I had the opportunity to tour the Connecticut Flower & Garden Show yesterday, and my photos will provide you with a preview of one of New England’s largest flower shows.

_{Connecticut Flower Show photo © 2010 Kim Knox Beckius.}

Connecticut Flower & Garden Show Runs Through Sunday originally appeared on About.com New England Travel on Friday, February 19th, 2010 at 12:24:33.

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Want to know how to work up a sweat when it’s 20 degrees outdoors in Vermont? Go snowshoeing. I had the chance to try snowshoeing for the first time during my visit this month to Vermont’s Mount Snow. Come along on this photo tour and find out how I fared and how you can enjoy an invigorating snowshoe trek.

More stories from my trip:

• 8 Things I Learned at SkiVermont Media Day
• Snow Lake Lodge Review (Warning: There is a dirty part.)

_{Snowshoeing photo © 2010 Kim Knox Beckius.}

Learn How to Snowshoe in Vermont originally appeared on About.com New England Travel on Friday, February 19th, 2010 at 10:06:36.

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New additions this week to Kim’s New England Deal Sheet:

• Book an overnight stay at Mohegan Sun priced from $278 for two including a cookbook, $100 dinner credit, chat with the chef and $20 in free bets;
• Savor a Taste of Providence with a two-night package priced from $399 for two including $200 in dining at two of the city’s top restaurants; and
• Enjoy dinner prepared by a private chef with a gourmet getaway at Vermont’s Phineas Swann Bed and Breakfast.

_{Photo of Todd English’s Tuscany at Mohegan Sun © 2005 Kim Knox Beckius.}

New England Gourmet Getaway Deals originally appeared on About.com New England Travel on Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 at 11:58:54.

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Winter is the perfect, quiet season for a girls’ escape to Cape Cod. A change of scenery, a bit of pampering, satisfying and comforting foods, music and laughter are amazingly restorative, and my friend, Jessica, and I found them all at the Dan’l Webster Inn.

_{Dan’l Webster Inn photo © 2005 Kim Knox Beckius.}

A Girls’ Escape to the Quiet Cape originally appeared on About.com New England Travel on Sunday, February 14th, 2010 at 20:30:31.

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Tickets go on sale Sunday for the summer season at Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s summer home in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts. There’s no better place in all of New England to spread out a picnic blanket, feast on gourmet goodies and listen to live music as the sun sets and the stars unveil themselves. Here is your complete guide to Tanglewood 2010.

_{Tanglewood photo © 2002 Kim Knox Beckius.}

Tanglewood Tickets Go on Sale Sunday originally appeared on About.com New England Travel on Thursday, February 11th, 2010 at 10:30:49.

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Wondering what’s new, interesting and exciting at Vermont ski resorts? Here are a few tidbits I picked up during last week’s SkiVermont Media Day at Mount Snow:

• Stowe is the first and only mountain resort in North America to be designated a Sustainable Community by Audubon International.
• The Stash at Killington is one of only five natural terrain parks in the world. The only other U.S. resort with a natural terrain park is Northstar at Tahoe in Lake Tahoe, California.
• Three skiers who will compete in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver are Stratton Mountain School graduates: Lindsey Jacobellis, Andy Newell and Louie Vito.
• Kids and adults who participate in ski and snowboard camps at Smugglers’ Notch are being outfitted with Flaik GPS units that allow them to track their speed, distance and other statistics at the end of each day.
• Jay Peak plans to unveil its new ice arena during the summer of 2010.
• Mount Snow has more fan guns (251) for snowmaking than any other ski resort in North America.
• Stowe receives more than 333 inches of natural snow annually.
• The 500-foot superpipe at Stratton Mountain is the longest in Vermont. The 2010 Burton US Open Snowboarding Championships will be held at Stratton March 15-22.

_{Mount Snow photo © 2010 Kim Knox Beckius.}

8 Things I Learned at SkiVermont Media Day originally appeared on About.com New England Travel on Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 at 20:23:02.

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