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Vacation Home Market Pressuring Boomer Searches
In my latest newsletter, Home On The Course, I speculated that the market for golf community homes was changing rapidly, and that the pandemic’s effects on real estate could last well beyond the end...
Retirement Spots: The North May Rise Again
If you subscribe to my free, mostly-monthly newsletter, you already know that I am a fan of the state of Vermont. So too are skiers, maple syrup lovers and craft beer worshipers. But no one retires to a...
Golf in the Great North (of Vermont)
If you want a great place for a summer vacation, I heartily recommend Lake Champlain in northern Vermont. My wife and I are staying in a small cabin on the lake outside St. Albans, about 15 minutes from...
Make your own golf community
A round of golf this past Monday in rural Vermont was a good reminder that a golfing lifestyle does not always mean life in a planned golf community. While visiting our daughter in St. Albans, VT,...
Vermont Weekend Includes Golf, Good Food, Craft Beer
I brought the clubs with me on a visit to see our daughter in northern Vermont this past holiday weekend and was able to play 18 at the Champlain Country Club in Swanton, whose logo features a...
Wonderful day at classic New England golf course
I attended a golf outing at Dorset Field Club yesterday. Located in the charming little town of Dorset, VT, Dorset Field Club claims to be the oldest continuing operated golf course in the U.S. The story...
Great place to hone your short game
There are plenty of good reasons to visit Burlington, VT. The restaurants are outstanding, almost all of them serving food grown on local farms. Downtown Burlington's Church Street is a mall,...
Stratton Mountain: Last chance to cheat ol' man winter on New England golf courses
In a few weeks, or sooner, northern New England golf courses will start to close down for the winter. Their golf pros' thoughts will turn to skiing -- or perhaps a winter in balmy Florida. But...
Great taste: After golf, things get cooking at The Essex
I wrote yesterday about The Links at Lang Farm, an exquisite little short course in impeccable shape, directly across the street from The Essex, which bills itself as "Vermont's Culinary Resort &...
Short & Sweet: Links at Lang Farm tightens up your short game...and timetable
Serious golfers generally disdain nine hole and short "executive" courses. Guilty as charged. Eighteen is the only round number for us when it comes to a round of golf, and any 18-hole course...
Special interest: GPS can take you to some surprising golf locations
Global Position Systems have two main purposes: Get you where you want to go, and suggest places to go that you might not know about. While driving through New Hampshire and Vermont this week, I set...
Mt. Anthony club well decorated
Some golf clubs -- and their members -- are content with a well-kept golf course, a decent clubhouse and restaurant, and a friendly efficient staff. In my experience, most do just that. If they...