Finally the new year has arrived and a new calendar has begun. Yes, we all know January has 31 days. However, I’m not sure about some of the other months…like June, for instance. Does it have 31 days? Hard to remember. Which brings us to calendar reform. There are those who favor simplifying our calendar […]
Judson D. Hale
Is this New England’s greatest gift to America? Well, it’s just our opinion…
Exactly what, why & when is Indian summer? The answers are not as simple as you may think…
New Hampshire
A Special Place Called ‘Liberty Street’
Have you ever decided to do something that for most of your life you’d never have even dreamed of doing?
Did penguins really land on Plymouth Rock? Historical details are important, aren’t they?
The last person to see Abraham Lincoln didn’t pass away until almost a hundred years after Lincoln was assassinated on April 15, 1865.
New England old-timers will never forget the dates of the ’38 Hurricane.
They say lobsters don’t have enough brain for pain. But can we be sure?
Magazine
Here in New England: My First Day
I wanted to be early for my first day on the job at Yankee Magazine, so I came in at 7:30 a.m. Robb Sagendorph, founder, publisher, and editor, had already been there for an hour. It was Monday, September 15, 1958, nine days after my wedding. “Look at this, Jud,” said my Uncle Robb, holding […]
New Hampshire
Ellacoya State Park | Gilford, NH
With my wife, Sally, three sons and, lately, their wives and children, I’ve spent summer weekends on Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire, for 38 years. So, until a surprise discovery just last summer, I assumed I knew all the fun things to do around New England’s third-largest lake–including having breakfast at The Strawberry Patch in Wolfeboro […]
MANY YEARS AGO, a member of the Grange in Brattleboro, Vermont, told me proudly that from the program of recycling hearing-aid batteries, the Grange had raised about $70 for its scholarship program. “You mean you personally raised seventy dollars for the Brattleboro Grange by recycling hearing-aid batteries?” I asked. “Heavens, no,” he replied. “I mean […]
One hundred and eighty-five years ago next month, on August 12, 1819, the whaler Essex sailed out of Nantucket on one of those multi-year whaling voyages of the old days. More than a year later, on November 22, 1820, she became one of New England’s most bizarre and, to my mind, intriguing legends. Yes, on […]