Our 9th annual appreciation of Angels Among Us, celebrating ordinary New Englanders with who are making an extraordinary difference in others’ lives.
Ian Aldrich
In the spring of 1954, Milton Graton landed a job that would change his life and the fate of covered bridges around the country, New England especially. A structure mover out of Ashland, New Hampshire, the 46-year-old Graton was a large-scale hauler, moving buildings mainly. Which is how he ended up in Rumney, […]
Would there have been a Malcolm X or a Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. without W. E. B. Du Bois? Most likely, but the civil-rights world they led and shaped would undoubtedly have looked much different. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, in 1868, at the dawn of Reconstruction, Du Bois died in 1963, during […]
Lovely weather and lighter crowds make late autumn the perfect time to visit Maine’s Chebeague Island Inn.
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Durgin–Park | New England’s Gifts
At Boston’s Durgin–Park, you take a seat in the restaurant’s original North Market location (today part of Faneuil Hall Marketplace) and enjoy the same kind of meal—pot roast, baked beans, Indian pudding—that diners did when the place first opened in 1827. You may even experience the same sometimes-bawdy, often-sarcastic service that has made Durgin–Park a […]
Installing a brown paper bag floor is an attractive, inexpensive flooring solution for damp, drafty spaces. Here’s how!
Photographer Kindra Clineff has been shooting foliage for Yankee since 1989. She shared her top tips on how to take the best fall foliage photographs ever.
Third-generation jam maker Vicky Allard —who owns and runs Blake Hill Preserves in Grafton, Vermont— shares her tips on how to make preserves.
Over the past decade, photographer Sara Gray’s travel assignments have taken her nearly everywhere in New England. She lives in southern Maine, but her eye finds beauty in any number of other places. Even though many of us have expensive digital cameras, not all travel photography is equal. To find out what goes into making […]
The Cape Cod National Seashore protects miles of dunes, beach, and wild lands in the heart of one of the most popular summer destinations in the country.
Let’s go back to those early years. Before the big house came down, nail by nail, board by board, beam by beam. Before all those truckloads of old timber rumbled through the quiet center of Middletown, Connecticut. Before the tree clearing and the dirt moving. Before the curious onlookers came to see what all the […]
Do you live in a drafty old house? Historic-homes expert Sally Zimmerman shares her tips for making old houses energy efficient.