Did you know the name and inspiration for the Frisbee flying disc came from Connecticut? Learn some more trivia about this modern toy and game.
History
Julia Shipley
7/3/1916 The fateful day when “Chubby” Woodman of Essex, Mass., became the first person to batter-fry a clam 5,000 Guests at the biggest clambake Woodman’s ever hosted (1938 in Marietta, Ohio) 0 Tweaks to Chubby’s original fried-clam recipe 300+ Family members who have worked at Woodman’s since 1916 1,620 Clams Woodman’s fried on a busy […]
The Boston Duck Tour was launched in 1994. How much do you know about this iconic New England attraction?
Buried treasures from the past wait to be heard and found again.
White River Junction, Vermont is a bastion of some of the first millennium’s best inventions: Trains (Amtrak’s Vermonter stops here), Cartoons (WRJ is the home to the Center for Cartoon Studies), and… Typewriters! So this week I packed my momma’s Smith Corona into its handy carrier and drove it two hours south to Twin […]
It’s -16 at 6 a.m. I’m kneeling on the kitchen floor, setting up a portable space heater to blast hot air beneath the sink. Our cold water pipe froze, despite the cabinet doors having been left open overnight. My husband heads off for work and comes back after an hour because none of the equipment […]
This is Sophie, the poster child for chocolate and bacon. Right now she’s staffing the register at the decadent food emporium, Nutty Steph’s in Middlesex, Vermont. It’s the morning of Bacon Night. Let’s say you’re a vegetarian with a chocolate allergy: Sophie will still make your day. I have barely explained my purpose for visiting […]
1892 year The Nutcracker ballet débuted in St. Petersburg, Russia 2012 year Boston reimagined its Nutcracker performance 3,600 jewels worn by the Sugar Plum Fairy 363 Boston Ballet students auditioning for The Nutcracker (only Boston Ballet students are considered) 8 dancers hidden under Mother Ginger’s skirt 2,400 Boston Ballet performances of The Nutcracker since 1963 […]
Five hours south of Moffatt’s Christmas Tree Farm, Seth Johnson steers his flatbed truck into the Stamford, Connecticut, rest area. Earlier this morning, while Seth was loading on these Frasers and balsams in Northern Vermont, the loudest sound was a jake brake muttering on a milk truck coming off nearby Denton Hill. Now, as he […]
Presently, hundreds of Christmas trees are flying sideways down the interstates of the east coast, zooming away from northcountry hayfields where they were raised, and barreling ever closer to your neighborhood. Case in point: Seth Johnson’s backed his trailer into the landing at Steve Moffatt’s Christmas Tree Farm in Craftsbury, VT. “Can you tell the […]
North of where you’re reading this, there’s a hayfield with rolling hills, and in a certain portion which probably made poor hay, a farmer thought, “Well, let’s try some balsams.” And in the spring of 2003, he did. Had you visited this plantation last week, you would have wandered across the sprawling meadow into a […]
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True Stories | My Creative Neighbor
For many years I drove by a little hand painted sign stuck in a lawn that said, “Free To See.” Then one day I pulled in the drive and knocked on the door and asked the lady who answered, “Just what am I free to see?” Coincidentally, that’s how Yankee’s contributing photographer, Corey Hendrickson also […]