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Author Wally Lamb talks with Tim Ehrenberg at the 2025 Nantucket Book Festival. / Courtesy

There was a moment at last year’s Nantucket Book Festival when it started to rain. The audience was gathered inside an old church, the ...

As avid gardeners, the greenhouse was a must for garden salad produce plants like tomatoes and cucumbers. / Photo by Jane Beiles

This article is from the summer 2026 issue of Boston Home. 

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Walk into Court 16, the new indoor tennis center in Newton, and the first thing you notice is what isn’t there: no dress code, no country club etiquette, and no sense that you’re being quietly judged for your backhand. Tennis...

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Before Rosie DiMare was a Real Housewife of Rhode Island, she was a hard-news reporter, which is to say she has been asking people uncomfortable questions for a living for some time now. These days, she asks them of her castmates—which is roughly how she ended up known as Nosy Rosie. Poking, ...

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It began, as it usually did, as an unsettling feeling in the pit of my stomach. Not painful, really, but vaguely unpleasant—as though something was moving inside of me that wasn’t supposed to be there. I’m a generally anxious person, neurotic about germs, travel, food, and just about everyth...