The rest, as they say, is history, and for three quarters of the year it’s all but impossible to get a reservation to vacation in this house, the scene of some of the key moments in Violet Cross’s unlikely youth.

One of the grand old historic houses on the Bayside waterfront, Crossjack House was once the home of the outwardly-respectable Amos Cross family whose daughter Violet captained the smuggling sloop Lancet for a number of years with astounding success before falling in love with a young apprentice in the Customs Office. Our most famous tourist district is a ghost town in the winter months, which makes it the perfect place for a getaway, especially if what you really want is to have a whole clean new house from which to stare out at a slightly different frozen waterway than the one you could see from your own rattling windows. Here are a few options we like right now: Bayside Whether you need a weekend, a whole week, or even longer, there’s sure to be a spot that’s perfect for a getaway staycation. Many of our local gems have winter getaway packages that make it easy to find a home away from home right here at home, for when you need to get out of your house or you’re pretty sure you’ll crack up.

Then, after trying to work that glass out from under the rest of the dishes and breaking it in the process and sliding down the cabinetry to cry helplessly for a few minutes at the bleakness of it all, perhaps you, too, have thought to yourself, I need a vacation, even if it is only January.Īnd guess what? Inns and hotels and guest houses all over our great city want you to know that there is another way for Nagspeakers to pass the cold days in their own hometown. As winter works its magic on the Magothy watershed, many of us find ourselves stuck indoors weighing the merits of an emergency hot chocolate run and wishing we were at least frozen someplace where there wasn’t laundry staring us in the face and a sinkful of dishes on top of our favorite tumbler, the one that makes even a cheap bottle of bourbon taste pretty good, which we really need now that we’re down to the cheap bottles.

Greenglass house