As the story goes, in 1976, when Howard Finster was 60, the Baptist preacher was painting a bicycle when he got paint on his hand and fell into a vision.…Continue Reading →
Architect Thomas Saltsman, of the Boston firm SaltsmanBrenzel, has become a sensation for the giant installations that have taken over his Marblehead driveway each Halloween for the past several years.…Continue Reading →
For several years now, I’ve been making pilgrimages to visionary sites across the United States. Below are a selection of photos from those trips. I’ll add more as I go.…Continue Reading →
For more than five decades, Ted Degener—who lives near Cornish, New Hampshire—has driven across the United States photographing more than 400 visionary art environments and their creators. His photos and…Continue Reading →
The problem was the view. “If you looked out the bathroom window, you looked onto a brick wall,” the artist Martin Prekop tells me. “There was a beautiful wood behind…Continue Reading →
Part of the fun of an old timey living-history museum like Old Sturbridge Village is the feeling that you’ve stepped off a time machine into the past—in this case, peacetime…Continue Reading →
“Mrs. Henry D. Sleeper of Beacon St. is building a beautiful summer cottage in Gloucester, near the site of the Colonial Arms hotel, which was burned during the late fall.…Continue Reading →
In the woods at the heart of Gloucester lies a ghost town, the remnants of an abandoned English colonial settlement today known as Dogtown. There are a number of ways to…Continue Reading →
Murals honoring cats fill the north side of Cat Alley, also known as Dean Avenue, just off Elm Street in Manchester, New Hampshire, between Lala’s Hungarian Pastry (836 Elm St.)…Continue Reading →
Ruth Kohler first heard about the home of Eugene Von Bruenchenhein and his wife Marie in January 1983. Eugene had recently died and a friend, a retired police officer, brought samples…Continue Reading →