An artist paints a picture, a musician composes a song, a baker whips up a soufflé, and a travel writer packs a suitcase of ideas and a notebook to capture the world. Jen Rose Smith is an accomplished travel writer who has written several guidebooks on New England and her home state of Vermont.

Four-day weekends don't come along often, so now that you've got one, how will you use it? Travel writer Jen Rose Smith is the author of New England Road Trip, and she shares some ideas on Vermont Edition.

New York—The NES Book Awards are made in four categories: Art & Photography, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Specialty and are presented annually to authors of books published in the previous twelve months.