Stillman Rogers
Travel is an important method of learning about the rest of the world and finding our own place in it. Exposure to other culture enriches life and enhances understanding among peoples from widely varying nations. It has been an important part of my life since post-college days when I moved to Italy. It became a full-time career a few years ago when I began to photograph and write guidebooks about the places I traveled most often and knew best.
I have authored and co-authored books about Italy, Portugal, Scandinavia, New England, Eastern Canada, and the Chesapeake Bay area and articles about South America as well. To me, travel is all about experiences, so it’s not surprising that several of these books are adventure guides featuring my own favorite sports of skiing, kayaking, mountain climbing and hiking. But I also look for other experiences, especially cultural and historical ones. I enjoy music, opera, architecture, art and places with an interesting story in their past, and I enjoy photographing and writing about all these subjects.
My photographs illustrate most of my books, and this allows me to look at places in different ways – through the camera lens and with a writer’s eye.
My latest books:
It Happened in New Hampshire (history)
New Hampshire Off the Beaten Path
Adventure Guide to Canada’s Atlantic Provinces
Adventure Guide to the Chesapeake Bay
Enchantment of the World: Russia (children’s)
Cities of the World: Toronto (children’s)
Cities of the World: Montreal (children’s)
Drive Around: Italian Lakes and Mountains
Drive Around: Portugal
Travellers Lanzarote& Fuerteventura
City Spots: Milan
City Spots: Verona
Latest Articles
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Plimoth Plantation Massachusetts: The Life of Native Americans
The Pilgrim settlers were not alone in Plymouth. Within days they encountered an ancient culture when Wampanoags came to the English settlement.
May 5, 2012
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Plimoth Plantation – Evoking the Lives of Plymouth's Pilgrims
Plimoth Plantation, a vivid recreation of the first Pilgrim settlement of 1620-29, brings those first settlers and their native neighbors back to life.
May 3, 2012
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Plymouth, Massachusetts: Journey to the Birth of a Nation
In December of 1620, a group of 99 English settlers landed on a wilderness shore of a new continent. What they started there grew into the United States.
May 2, 2012
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Visiting Potsdam Germany for Frederick the Great's 300th Birthday
Potsdam, Germany, was the favored residence of King Frederick II, "The Great", and much of the rich heritage of his reign can be enjoyed by visitors today.
Mar 13, 2012
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Las Fallas de Valencia : The Excitement of Beauty Wit and Fire
Think of it as perhaps the world's biggest block party filled with music, sculpture, food, fire and fireworks. For three days in March Valencia explodes.
Jan 19, 2012
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Boston's Gardner Museum Gives Boston a New (Renzo) Piano
On January 19, 2012, the brilliant new Renzo Piano addition to the Isabella Stewart Museum in Boston, Massachusetts opens to the public.
Jan 12, 2012
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Historic Newport – Dining and Lodging with History
Best known for its Gilded Age mansions, Newport, RI, also has America's largest group of original Colonial buildings. Visitors can sleep and dine in some.
Jan 6, 2012
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Gran Hotel Domine – Bilbao's Best View of the Guggenheim
Breakfast views don't get any better than the morning sun shimmering off the golden panels of Frank Gehry's masterpiece building in Bilbao, Spain.
Jan 6, 2012
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Bilbao Architecture: A Tour of Basque History in the Casco Viejo
Since the 14th century Bilbao has been an important port and commercial center. A walk along its streets and the River Nervió lets you discover its story.
Oct 19, 2011
- Stillman Rogers
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Historic Architecture in Bilbao, Spain - From Medieval to Modern
A people's history is most often told in their architecture. Walk the streets of Bilbao to find it all, from medieval to ultra-modern.
Oct 18, 2011
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