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Remember summer as a child, when vacation felt endless? When each day felt like it could stretch on forever? Decades later, for many of us, summer feels like the opposite: it's over before we know it.  It's true that our perception of time changes as we age, with days, weeks, and seasons feeling shorter and shorter as we get older. How ironic, then, that that's often when we …

If you're walking down College Street in Burlington, Vermont, and then turn right on Church Street, you'll find yourself in one of the most iconic downtowns in the United States: the Church Street Marketplace. The heart of Burlington is often abuzz with activity. It consists of a pedestrian walkway that on many days is filled with locals, travelers, professionals, musicians—people from all wa …

Planning a wedding can be a mix of stressful and fun. More often than not, it involves being bombarded with decorating ideas that are specific to the day of the wedding—which means that all your planning and work might be over before your honeymoon. But what if wedding planning weren't just about the day itself? What if it also meant starting traditions that you and your sweetheart can cheris …

Portland, Maine, gets a lot of international visitors, especially from cruise ships that stop in the port. So it wasn't a surprise when a man from England walked into our store there recently, along with a crowd from a cruise ship. What was unusual, though, was what he said."Is this Fred Danforth's store?" he said, and Denise, the store manager, said yes, it was. She saw tears form in the man's ey …