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October
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New England's deservedly famed fall foliage is in full color everywhere in early October. Rooms at country inns are in great demand, especially on weekends. |
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In October, New England is a world-class tourist attraction because of the brilliant, varied colors of its autumn foliage. Bright yellow beeches, flame-red and yellow maples, russet oaks and many others turn the countryside into a vast brilliantly-colored painter's canvas. The blazing finale to foliage season is the Columbus Day holiday weekend: October 7-9, 2006 October 6-8, 2007 Every room in the countryside is reserved well in advance. The weather is usually wonderful: cool to warmish days, cool to chill evenings with lots of bright sun (if we're lucky). In northern New England there will be some frosty nights, and perhaps a bit of snow. The last evening of the month, October 31st, is celebrated as Hallowe'en (the American equivalent of the vigil before All Saints' Day). In Boston, hotels are often filled by conventioneers since October is also a popular month for meetings and conferences. Some inns and seasonal services close for the winter after the Columbus Day weekend, and late October is fairly quiet in the countryside, though busy in the cities. If you plan to tour at this time, however, there will be plenty of services for you, you'll enjoy lower prices, no crowds, and pockets of late-maturing fall color in many places, especially in the southern New England states. |
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Ready for Hallowe'en: two New England girls have their pumpkins to be carved into jack-o'-lanterns.
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