Pick-your-own-apple time at Ellsworth Hill Orchard and Farm near Sharon, Conn. (Susan Spano / For The Times)
An autumn walk near the West Cornwall covered bridge near Sharon, Conn. (Susan Spano / For The Times)
Town Hill Farm, an equestrian center near Sharon, Conn. (Susan Spano / For The Times)
The southwest corner of New Hampshire around Mt. Monadnock, where Thornton Wilder wrote the play “Our Town.” (Susan Spano / For The Times)
Cresson bridge, built around 1860, near Swanzey, N.H. (Susan Spano / For The Times)
The clapboard meetinghouse in Hancock, N.H., built in 1851. (Susan Spano / For The Times)
Climbing the 3,165-foot Mt. Monadnock in the southwest corner of New Hampshire. (Susan Spano / For The Times)
One of the rooms in the Hancock Inn, which opened in 1789. (Susan Spano / For The Times)
Near Cohasset Harbor, which was a wooden ship-building hub in the Great Age of Sail. (Susan Spano / For The Times)
Cohasset Harbor, visited by Captain John Smith in 1614, now home to pleasure boats. (Susan Spano / For The Times)
Cohasset remembers its sons fallen in battle, including those who fought in the American Revolution. (Susan Spano / For The Times)