Some history buffs in New Hampshire — myself included — have always believed that the colonists’ attack on Fort William and Mary in New Castle, New Hampshire, four months before the battles in Lexington and Concord, was, in fact, the beginning of the American Revolution. We feel that the only reason the rest of America […]
Judson D. Hale
Welcome to the May 2016 edition of Jud’s New England Journal, the rather curious monthly musings of Judson Hale, the Editor-in-Chief of Yankee Magazine, published in Dublin, New Hampshire since 1935. Here in New England, a favorite sign of spring is the sound of peepers (little frogs), pronounced “peepehs” even by those who usually pronounce […]
Was New England-born Samuel Wilson the real Uncle Sam? Find out more about the man (and meat inspector) behind an American legend.
It’s best not to call the moderator at Town Meeting a liar, and there are a few other “don’ts” we’d suggest, too…
Playing the New England weather game means being well versed in a series of cliché “weather talk” expressions, but there are exceptions…
I wondered if perhaps New England could lay claim to the very first American Christmas tree, so I began rummaging around in our library.
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A Laugh Worth Remembering
Welcome to the October 2015 edition of Jud’s New England Journal, the rather curious monthly musings of Judson Hale, the Editor-in-Chief of Yankee Magazine, published in Dublin, N.H. for the last 80 years. A Laugh Worth Remembering It seems like yesterday… All my life (so far), I’ve had a tendency to remember laughs better […]
Our editor-in-chief recalls his first morning working for Yankee Magazine’s founder. During every Fourth of July, my mind turns to Robb Sagendorph, founder of Yankee Magazine, who died 45 years ago, on July 4, 1970, but whose presence I still feel within the pages of every issue, including this one. He was my first boss […]
There’s Just Something About Maine… But which Maine do you mean?
For me, the most puzzling of New England legends is the one involving Molly Stark. Puzzling because the historic Molly Stark never said or did anything of note. Nothing. And yet she is really big in New England today. For instance, the road between Brattleboro and Bennington, Vermont is called the Molly Stark Trail. A […]
Every region in the country has certain words that reflect its history, its geography – and its personality.
How a pigeon saved the Washington Monument is a sort of sad but mildly interesting piece of historical trivia.