Ben Watson’s apple world is bigger than most–and he thinks everyone should have the chance to experience it. “We have these apples that are sweet and crisp, but they don’t taste like anything,” he says of common grocery-store types. Some 14,000-16,000 named varieties have originated in the U.S.–several hundred in New England alone. They’re diverse […]
Ian Aldrich
History
75 years of Yankee
$50 weekly salary paid to Yankee‘s new assistant editor (now editor-in-chief), Judson Hale, in 1958 267 number of “Plain Talk” columns penned by Yankee‘s fix-it expert, Earl Proulx 15,000 recipe requests received following the December 1982 feature “The Great Wellesley, Massachusetts, Christmas Cookie Exchange”Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe 5,000 […]
Read the Original House for Sale article It all started with a crooked-looking bay window in 1999. More than a decade on, that’s how Chris Allen remembers it. The window, made out of two old cabinet doors, was just a small part of a grand old house in downtown Groton, Massachusetts, that Chris passed each […]
Here’s a life list of 75 essential things for anyone who loves New England, native and visitor alike. How many have you done?
Clarence Rhodes, celebrated rosarian and longtime judge for the American Rose Society, lives in Portland, Maine, where this retired electrical engineer has dispelled the notion that New England’s harsh winters kill the prospects of anything outside of, say, an ‘Elina’, ‘Dublin Bay’, or ‘Hot Princess’. More than 250 bushes consume his backyard, line his driveway, […]
The Right Stuff First you need good sand. (For the Hampton competition, Grady trucks in 300 tons of it.) To find out what you’re working with, head to the water’s edge, pick up a handful of sand, and form a ball. “If you can hold it sideways between your thumb and middle finger and it […]
73 years the Frantzis family has owned Quassy Amusement Park in Middlebury, CT 35 mph: top speed of the 80-year-old Yankee Cannonball, oldest roller coaster in the U.S., now at Canobie Lake ParkGet Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe 177,408 cookies devoured each year by reindeer at Santa’s Village in Jefferson, […]
History
Water: New England Numbers
10 miles: width of Lake Champlain between Burlington, VT, and Port Douglas, NY, its widest point 1,300 lakes and ponds in New Hampshire 6,000 lakes and ponds in MaineGet Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe 4 feet: Cape Cod National Seashore land lost each year to erosion 316 feet: maximum depth […]
Maine native Tom Seymour is an expert on foraging for edible wild plants. [slideshow post_id=”96094″] Eating wild doesn’t always require venturing far. “A vacant lot in town may have more to find than the Allagash Wilderness,” says Tom Seymour. A few years ago in Maine’s Moosehead Lake region, Seymour led a plant seminar whose participants […]
Read More: New England Numbers: Hurricane of ’38 Wind That Shook the World $308 million total price tag from devastation caused by Hurricane of ’38 1,100 deaths in Massachusetts during July 1911 heat wave, with temps topping 110 degrees in BostonGet Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe 94 deaths and 1,300 […]
Magazine
Town Meeting Tips
Make a Name for Yourself Some old-timers like to tell new residents not to speak at their first or (gulp) even first five Town Meetings. Nonsense, says Susan Clark. But picking your speaking spots is important. “There’s a trust that needs to develop,” she says. “If you just go in there and say, This is […]
Gardens
Spinach for Winter
For all would-be winter gardeners, Coleman suggests going with spinach, which can be harvested four times, growing well into February. “It keeps renewing itself,” he says.