Southeastern Massachusetts Magazine

  A late-season tropical storm passed to our south and east, kicking up the surf for Massachusetts. We worked the South Shore for you, starting in Hull. 29 years ago today, we had the Perfect Storm. Cohasset is next. Cohasset and Hull were so misty, it hurt my shooting. This is my second best Cohasset shot. I took 17. These two kids are underdressed. We would have stayed longer, but we had to get to... Marsh Vegas! We were past high tide by the time we got tp Ocean Bluff. Last stop... Duxbury Duxbury's new wall got a challenge today. First snow of 2020-2021... Hingham First snow... Buzzards Bay First snow... Duxbury (much love to Jenny DeFreitas)

We'd recommend hurrying if you want to see some fall foliage in 2020. It is very late in the season, and many of the leaves are brown. Much of the area is post-peak already, although you can still see some color if you are willing to drive around a bit. If not, we did it for you. We had to maximize our trips this year, so we stuck to interior Plymouth and Bristol Counties. While there is good foliage along the coast (this picture is from Mattapoisett, I believe), the numbers favor someone going inland. The coast tends to be pine-heavy, and that isn't optimal. We're pretty late in the season in a game where days make a difference. This is the East Middleboro 4-H building on October 20th... ...and October 24th. Still, if you want foliage, you'd better stick to SE Massachusetts. Everything else in New England is well past-peak. You have to go to Pennsylvania to get to the next peak area. There's actually a foliage map that backs my word, in case you think I'm just

  Which rock in Rochester? Witch Rock in Rochester! Witch Rock sits in some dude's yard off New Bedford Road in Rochester. She is what people call a Local Oddity. No one knows how Witch Rock became what it is today, although I would use "no one" along the lines of "no one who posted about it on the Internet." I'm sure that once I spam this link onto the Rochester Facebook page, some old timer will be like, "Chris Grant painted it in 1847," possibly adding a "My grandfather told me that____" on before. It is quite possible that some old-timer who is lost to history got tired of questioning along the lines of: "My house is the one with the big rock in the yard." "Which rock?" So he went out, got some paint, worked carefully... and he now answers people asking him " Which rock ?" with " Precisely ." We do know that the boulder dates back to 1899, as a harder-working blogger than I found a reference to