Jenn Johnson

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Vermont

The Sunflower House at Billings Farm & Museum in Vermont

Plunge into a sea of late-summer sunflowers when you “tour” the Sunflower House at Vermont’s Billings Farm & Museum.

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Yankee Magazine

Rite of Return | A Connecticut Migratory Bird Parade

As Connecticut’s largest shoreline park, Hammonasset Beach State Park is a place visitors naturally flock to. And what’s attractive to nearly a million sun-worshipping humans annually is just as alluring for birds, especially during peak avian travel season. “Coastal hammocks like Hammonasset are terrific stopover habitat for migrating land birds,” says Patrick Comins, executive director […]

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Yankee Magazine

Bloom Time | Spring Comes to the Boston Public Garden

Fifty feet of asphalt is only the most obvious divider between Boston’s famous downtown green spaces, the Common and the Public Garden. Born more than 200 years apart, they also diverge in their expression: one a freewheeling invitation to public life, the other a horticultural oasis rooted in Victorian-era decorum. But in his 22-year career […]

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Yankee Magazine

Meet the Press | Up Close

If you were in the market for a printing press toward the end of the 19th century, your eye may have been caught by an ad from the Peerless Printing Press Company in Palmyra, New York. Headlined “That Smooth, Easy-Running ‘Peerless,’” it gets right to the point: Constructed substantially. Built to stand the test. High […]

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