Lambertville

Blink and you might bypass the three-quarter-square-mile Borough of Hopewell. The Mercer County, N.J., hamlet usually is overshadowed by its more fashionable neighbors, Princeton and Lambertville. This classic Norman Rockwell-meets-Mayberry community...

You could do a lot worse than spend a weekend in New Jersye's Hunterdon County. This is the absolute antithesis of the notion that New Jersey is nothing but interstates and industry. Instead, there are stone walls, deep woods, and the Delaware River...

The Great Swamp of New Jersey lives up to its immodest name. Cheerier than the Dismal in Virginia and North Carolina, less freaky than the Okefenokee in Georgia, the Great Swamp is a real swamp - a marshy, mossy miasma full of mist and mystery. The swamp...

The rolling countryside of Bucks County, with its covered bridges, stone walls, and old-fashioned barns is a relaxed destination for a weekend. Fifty years ago, this part of Pennsylvania drew writers and actors from Manhattan with its laid-back country...

There isn't a better season to spend some time in Bucks County. The leaves begin their annual flirtation with color - russets, golds, flaming orange, fiery reds. Even a few shades of dark eggplant and bright yellows add themselves to the mix. In the early...

A tiny town on the Delaware River, Lumberville is an easy drive from its bigger and more famous sister, New Hope. The 1740 House is a rustic-looking retreat in the tiny town of Lumberville, in the heart of Pennsylvania's Bucks County. The house was built...

Unless he is entertaining — and his friends do like to hang at his plastic-fantastic bachelor pad — Leon Gazarian is the only living thing in his Encino condominium. If he wants to see plant life, Gazarian looks out the window, past his...

In New Jersey, where I grew up, names such as Washington, Monroe, Mercer, Knox, Stockton and Morris are commonplace, found on street signs, municipal halls, schools and liquor stores. When you live in one of the 13 original colonies, the Revolution is...

Where: 105 miles; two hours from Nassau-Suffolk border. Why: Antique shopping in old stagecoach stop on the Delaware River; cross bridge to New Hope, Pa., and Bucks County; restored Victorian homes. Federal row homes and factories; biking and jogging...

For Gerard O'Brien, Super Sunday arrives this weekend, and it has nothing to do with football. The owner of a midcentury furniture gallery in Los Angeles is painstakingly preparing a playbook to help him score at three simultaneous modernist auctions....

What happens to the little shack selling candy or french fries or crabs just off the beach when a sleepy resort like Ocean City explodes into a destination visited by hundreds of thousands of vacationers each summer? Some go out of business,...