Main Streets & Back Roads of New England: The Best of Chronicle's Award-winning WCVB-TV Series (Broadcast Tie-Ins)

New England -- white picket fences, wide tree-lined streets, tall church steeples, and lots of "interesting" characters. Each weeknight for the past 20 years, Boston-based WCVB-TV has broadcasted the acclaimed Chronicle news magazine to a nightly New England audience of some 2.2 million homes. Several times a week the show's producers take viewers along a trip through the region's main streets and back roads. This popular segment introduces and reacquaints New Englanders with their hidden corners, ingenious inventors, fascinating legends, and nostalgic traditions.

As with the award-winning TV show, this book combines fabulous footage with insightful commentary to make each journey a memorable one. For this 20th anniversary celebratory compilation, the show's producers have selected their favorite 50 segments to share within these pages -- interviews, treks, explorations, and drives -- encouraging a visit, actual or armchair, again and again.