Typos happen. When they crop up in a newspaper headline, they’re good for a laugh. When they show up in the Bible, things get more lucrative.
History
Justin Shatwell
Where can a history-loving Yankee go to commemorate the Civil War? These 5 coastal forts are a great place to start.
History
The Mayflower | Everyone’s Ship
For better and worse, the Mayflower carried the seeds of the nation we know today in its cramped and swaying hold. What does that mean to you?
New England
New Bedford Whaling Museum
It’s the responsibility of any good history museum to tell both sides of a story. That’s somewhat more difficult when one side is a whale. The New Bedford Whaling Museum has successfully struck a balance between history and natural science that fully explores the complex and often bloody relationship between Earth’s two most dominant mammals. […]
Is spring the season to put aside all thoughts of winter, or is now the time we should be thinking about it most of all?
When the Amateur Strand Symphony Orchestra formed in 1924, they rejected the name “Portland Symphony Orchestra” because they felt it was “too imposing.” But they’ve grown into that name.
By the winter of 1773, Josiah Quincy, Jr. knew he was dying. He was an intelligent man—a Harvard educated lawyer—so he harbored no illusions about what a diagnosis of consumption meant. Though just 29-years old, his body was beginning to fail him. His vitality was being burned away, little by little, by the illness germinating […]
While searching for phones online one day, my mind wandered to the Wyoming, because much like the phone I was hoping to buy, it was a technological dinosaur.
How bad does a storm have to be before you say uncle and let yourself be snowed in? Tell us where you stand on snow days.
The Blackington Collection — a priceless collection of 2,000 glass-plate negatives that captured New England life from the 1890s through the 1930s — had been forgotten in a box in the cellar of Yankee’s offices. Then they were rescued. They’ll often start, ‘I have a funny question. You may not be interested, but …’” As the […]
When people come to the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts, they gaze at the volumes and say, “Who ever knew such a literature existed?” Don’t you know Yiddish is dead?” When Aaron Lansky, then a graduate student of Yiddish literature, first proposed saving the world’s Yiddish books in 1980, many scholars were pessimistic, […]
Magazine
When Does Snow Stop Being Fun?
Somehow it surprises me every year. Summer days melt away all thought of winter; so much so that when those first flakes appear, it’s like I’m seeing them for the first time. Winter arrived in Western Mass with a modest overnight dusting. Watching the shadows of precipitation flit through the beam of my headlights, I […]