For more than 25 years, award-winning journalist and author Ted Reinstein has covered New England for WCVB’s celebrated show, “Chronicle,” the nation’s longest-running locally-produced nightly newsmagazine. Ted has visited and reported from every corner of New England, introducing viewers to some of the region’s most interesting people and their stories. Now, he condenses all of the most memorable people he’s met in his travels and shares them and their stories in his newest book. Ted will share the stories and the people who have left a lasting impact on him, accompanied by some brilliant photography. Some stories inspire, some are fascinating, others are moving, and some are just plain, laugh-out-loud funny. (Wait’ll you find out what runs a certain very old rope-tow in Vermont!) And because no one loves a great diner more than Ted, he also shares his favorites in all six New England states. It’s a rousing, fast-paced road trip through a whole region of America you’ll see in a new way. It’s a love song to New England. It’s truly a journey through its heart and soul.

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Supported by the Friends of the Winchester Public Library.

About the author: Since 1995, Ted Reinstein has been a reporter for Boston/WCVB’s celebrated “Chronicle,” the nation’s longest-running, locally-produced nightly newsmagazine. He has been a contributing member of the WCVB editorial board since 2010. Elsewhere on television, Ted has hosted specials for the Discovery Channel and HGTV. For the Travel Channel's photo/adventure series, “FreezeFrame,” he explored Hawaii's volcanoes, the caves of Puerto Rico, and the South Pacific islands of Tahiti. In 2002, he was part of a Chronicle team that received a prestigious National DuPont-Columbia Broadcast Journalism Award for Chronicle’s coverage of Boston’s Big Dig project. In 2018, he received an Emmy Award for his story on the “Good Night Lights” phenomenon in Providence, Rhode Island. His first book, New England Notebook: One Reporter, Six States, Uncommon Stories, was selected by National Geographic Traveler as one of its “Best Picks.” He’s also the author of Wicked Pissed: New England’s Most Famous Feuds, Before Brooklyn: The Unsung Heroes Who Helped Break Baseball’s Color Barrier, and co-author, with his wife, Anne-Marie, of New England’s General Stores: Exploring an American Classic. His newest book, Travels Through the Heart and Soul of New England was released in July 2024 by Globe Pequot Press. Ted is a native of Winthrop, Massachusetts, and lives with his family just west of Boston.