TouchScreenTravels

Our Touch, your Travels…

This is a preview of the full content of our New England’s Best app.

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Film, TV, & Literature

Many popular films, TV shows, and literature are set in New England. The places listed below have been settings; have been important in some other way; or provide good resources.

Film

Good Will Hunting
The Social Network
Mystic Pizza
Little Women
Beetlejuice
Hocus Pocus
Jaws
Moonrise Kingdom
The Stepford Wives
Manchester-by-the-Sea

TV

Cheers
Frasier
Family Guy
Gilmore Girls
Boston Public
Boston Legal
Boston Blue

Books & poems

Novels by Stephen King (It, Pet Semetary, The Stand, Salem's Lot, Carrie, Cujo)
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
The Dunwich Horror - H.P. Lovecraft
The Lottery - Shirley Jackson
The Scarlett Letter, The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Self Reliance - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from New England – Siobhan Senier
The poetry of Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, and ee cummings
A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court - Mark Twain

Central Massachusetts

Providence, RI

The Frost House

Poem-worthy historic site

Lovecraft Arts & Sciences

Proudly weird bookstore

Mark Twain House and Museum

Wallpaper, woodwork, wit

Mystic Pizza, Mystic

Chewy crust & unique toppings (l,d; $$)

Salem, MA

Witch kitsch & historic homes

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Powerful art collection

Walden Pond

Thoreau was here

Yale University

Picturesque Ivy League university

Image by Rachel Levine